This magnificent desolation
By: by Thomas O'Malley
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9781408833803; 9781408834466
Subjects: Psychological fiction; Minnesota - Fiction; Fiction
Description: Duncan's entire world is the orphanage where he lives, a solitary outpost in the snowy expanse of northern Minnesota. Aged ten, he cannot remember his life to this point, but he has stories that he recites like prayers: the story of how his mother brought him here during the worst blizzard of the century; the story of how God spoke to him at his birth and gave him a special purpose. Duncan is sure that his mother is dead until the day she turns up to claim him.