num_pages: 372
description: George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.
language: English
title: The Watch that Ends the Night
titlecomplete: The Watch that Ends the Night
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, War, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Politics, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 741
awards: awardedAt: -347126400000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction
publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press