num_pages: 296
description: Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.
language: English
title: No Great Mischief
titlecomplete: No Great Mischief
genres: Fiction, Family, Canadian Literature, Canada, Scotland, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 11481
places: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
awards: awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Canadian Booksellers Association Libris Award
category: Fiction Book, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Trillium Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Metų verstinė knyga, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.