A Deeper Sea
by
Yvonne Wilson
Edition: First Edition
Release Date: October 25, 2006
ISBN: 978-1-897306-23-9
Number of Pages: 224
Language: English
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A beautiful fable about a man who has opened locked gates without a key but can't remember how he did it.
Wilson's tenth novel is another on her favourite theme: survival of the individual in isolation: remote communities, harsh climates, social solitude.
Hano is the only child of the only policeman on Rangiora's Reef. He is also the only child whose first language is English and who is not one of Father Jean's flock.
Hano needs another boy, and when he is five, the "Children of the Sea"-a deeper sea than ours-make tentative first contact by sending one of their own. Hano tells his foster mother, "His name is Star, and he's my brother."
Hano's story unfolds in four parts: Childhood on Rangiora's Reef, setting based on Akaroa, an isolated town near Christchurch, New Zealand; Success in maturity, setting based on a New Brunswick village the author knew well as a child; in Love, with a girl half his age, in a hot desert setting; and Old Age, trapped in a jungle.
Hano survives, rises to high honour, and remembers at last what true freedom is and how to achieve it.
Yvonne Wilson is a writer, book editor, and teacher of fiction writing in Saint John, New Brunswick. Four more novels are in progress.
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