num_pages: 448
description: Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A Finalist for the 2003 Giller Prize Across a bend of Ontario's Attawan River lies the Island, where, for generations, the Walkers have lived among other mill workers. But in the summer of 1965, with the threat of mill closures looming, the Walkers grapple with their personal crises, just as the rest of the town fights to protect its way of life. Superbly crafted and deeply moving, this book is at once a love letter to a place, a gripping family saga, and testimony to the emergence of an important new novelist.
language: English
title: The Island Walkers
titlecomplete: The Island Walkers
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Adult, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Contemporary
ratings_count: 869
places: Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Booker Prize
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize
publisher: John Murray