{"product_id":"the-signal-flame-paperback","title":"The Signal Flame - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrew Krivak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe stunning second novel from National Book Award finalist Andrew Krivák--\"an extraordinarily elegant writer, with a deep awareness of the natural world\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)--tells the heartbreaking, captivating story about a family awaiting the return of their youngest son from the Vietnam War.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania, Hannah and her son Bo mourn the loss of the family patriarch, Jozef. They were three generations under one roof; a war-haunted family in a war-torn century. Jozef was conscripted into the Austro-Hungarian army in World War I. His American-born daughter's husband, Bexhet, an immigrant, fights in World War II--returning to Dardan, Pennsylvania, only to be taken in a hunting accident on Hannah's family's land. Finally, Hannah's younger son, Sam, goes MIA in Vietnam. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd so there is only Bo, a quiet man full of sorrow and conviction and a firstborn's sense of duty. He is left to grieve but also to hope for reunion, to fall in love and create a new life, to embrace the land and work its mountain soil. \u003ci\u003eThe Signal Flame\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring exploration--the second stand-alone novel in a trilogy that began with the National Book Award finalist \u003ci\u003eThe Sojourn\u003c\/i\u003e--of generations of men and the events that define them, brothers who take different paths, the old European values yielding to new world ways, and the convalescence of memory and war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning shortly after Easter in 1972 and ending on Christmas Eve--as the Vietnam War winds down--this ambitious novel honors the cycles of earth and body, humming with blood and passion, and it confirms as a writer of extraordinary vision and power. Andrew Krivák's \u003ci\u003eThe Signal Flame \u003c\/i\u003eis \"a complex and layered portrait of a time and place, and a family shaped, generation after generation, by the memory of war\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAndrew Krivák is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Signal Flame \u003c\/i\u003eand the National Book Award finalist, \u003ci\u003eThe Sojourn\u003c\/i\u003e, which also won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the Chautauqua Prize. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48709385584889,"sku":"9781501126383","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/7h_Roo9IIk9781501126383.webp?v=1784923752","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-signal-flame-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}