{"product_id":"in-winter-i-get-up-at-night-hardcover","title":"In Winter I Get Up at Night - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJane Urquhart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- One of Indigo's Most Anticipated Books - One of the CBC's Canadian Fiction Books to Read in Fall 2024 \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of the greatest writers of our time comes a profound and moving novel of an unforgettable life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the early morning dark, Emer McConnell rises for a day of teaching music in the schools of rural Saskatchewan. While she travels the snowy roads in the gathering light, she begins another journey, one of recollection and introspection, and one that, through the course of Jane Urquhart's brilliant new novel, will leave the reader forever changed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving as effortlessly through time as the drift of memory itself, \u003ci\u003eIn Winter I Get Up at Night \u003c\/i\u003ebrings Emer and her singular story to life. At the age of 11, she is terribly injured in an enormous prairie storm--the \"great wind\" that shifts her trajectory forever. As she recovers, separated from her family in a children's ward, Emer gets to know her fellow patients, a memorable group including a child performer who stars in a travelling theatre company, the daughter of a Dukhobor community, and the son of a leftist Jewish farm collective. The children are tended to by three nursing sisters and two doctors, whom the ever-imaginative Emer comes to call Doctor Angel and Doctor Carpenter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmer's tale grows outwards from that ward, reaching through time and space in a dreamlike fashion, recounting the stories of her mother's entanglement with a powerful yet mysterious teacher; her brother's dawning spirituality, which eventually leads him to the priesthood; the remarkable lives of the nuns who care for her; and the passionate yet distant love affair of Emer and an enigmatic man she calls Harp--a brilliant scientist whose great discovery has forever altered millions of lives around the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn luminous prose, and with exhilarating nuance and depth, Jane Urquhart charts an unforgettable life, while also exploring some of the grandest themes of the twentieth century--colonial expansion, scientific progress, and the sinister forces that seek to divide societies along racial and cultural lines. \u003ci\u003eIn Winter I Get Up at Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a major work of imagination and self-exploration from one of the greatest writers of our time.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJANE URQUHART, one of Canada's best loved writers, was born in the north (in Little Longlac, Ontario), and grew up in Northumberland County and Toronto. She is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, which have received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; the Trillium Award; and the Governor General's Award, and have been finalists or longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; the Rogers Communications Writers' Trust Fiction Prize; the Orange Prize; The Giller Prize; the Booker Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.99 x 8.53 x 5.73 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 27, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459885023410,"sku":"9780771051999","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/03ec0e87c38eef42a2b8033ee68e340f.webp?v=1778907310","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/in-winter-i-get-up-at-night-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}