ABOUT
THE BOOK

In the middle of a Winnipeg football game, a mysterious light descends from the sky to envelop the shattered body of an injured player. From that moment on, what we know about this visible world is forever changed as Marilyn Bowering spins a tale spanning two wars and moving from the streets of Winnipeg to the polar ice caps of Siberia, and into the napalm-burned forests of Korea. Gerhard and Albrecht are twin brothers, born into an eccentric family, their father drawn into the magic of “personal magnetism” and their German-immigrant mother obsessed with the past. Gerhard, sent back to Germany, becomes an elite Nazi soldier; Albrecht moves towards an equally uncertain future, shut out from the dark secrets of the family; and at the centre of it all is Nathaniel Bone, seemingly all-powerful and driven by his own terrible history. Marilyn Bowering has written one previous novel and several books of poetry: she lives in Sooke, Canada.