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Mother Country: A Novel

Irina Reyn

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Product Details
Format:
Paperback (BC)
ISBN:
9781250300898
Published:
01 Mar 2020
Publisher:
Macmillan [1570]
Dimensions:
288 pages - 203 x 127 x 18mm

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The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television, Vladimir Putin speaks of the 'reunification' of Crimea and Russia, the Ukrainian president makes unconvincing promises about a united Ukraine, while American politicians are divided over the fear of immigration. Nadia internalises notions of 'union' all around her, but the one reunion she has been waiting six years for - with her beloved daughter - is being eternally delayed by the Department of Homeland Security. When Nadia finds out that her daughter has lost access to the medicine she needs to survive, she takes matters into her own hands. Mother Country is Irina Reyn's most emotionally complex, urgent novel yet. Hopeful and full of humour, it is a story of mothers and daughters and, above all else, resilience.
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