Your Father Sends His Love

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Pub Date 2 Jun 2016 | Archive Date 20 Apr 2017

Description

The twelve unforgettable stories in Your Father Sends His Love explore the complex, baffling, and vital relationship between parents and their children. Set in the past, present and future, they are unified by their compassion, animated by the unsaid, and distinguished by how beautifully they extract the luminous from the ordinary.

With wit, subtllety, and uncommon sensitivity, Evers captures the powerful emotions of family life: joy, fear, vulnerability, duty, betrayal, loss, anger, and unconditional love. While his characters often feel more than they can express, they are in the hands of a masterful story teller who gives time to what might otherwise seem incidental. Your Father Sends His Love is a powerful, haunting, and deeply felt work about the most important relationships we will ever know.

The twelve unforgettable stories in Your Father Sends His Love explore the complex, baffling, and vital relationship between parents and their children. Set in the past, present and future, they are...


Advance Praise

‘One of the most moving books I’ve read in a long time’ Teju Cole

‘Evers explores the specific patterns of love in families ... his stories reverberate long after the final page’ New York Times

‘Proof that the story form remains in rude health. Quietly brilliant and moving’ Ian Rankin

‘Excellent . . . Evers is extraordinarily good a depicting everyday pressures, deceptions and intimacies . . . Rich, provocative and often intensely sad’ Metro

‘One of the most moving books I’ve read in a long time’ Teju Cole

‘Evers explores the specific patterns of love in families ... his stories reverberate long after the final page’ New York Times

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ISBN 9781447280583
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