house of widows
Subtitle: an oral history
By: Askold Melnyczuk.
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Saint Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781555974916
Subjects: Family secrets -- Fiction.; Suicide victims -- Family relationships -- Fiction.; Fathers and sons -- Fiction.; Voyages and travels -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: After his father's suicide, James Pak takes three items from his dead father's house that he can't understand why his father owns--a military uniform, a glass jar, and a letter written in an language he can't read--and journeys from Europe to American and back again to discover the secrets of his family history and the meaning behind his father's mysterious belongings.
Notes: Novel.