Bibliograph

Kalila, Rosemary Nixon

Type

Label

Kalila, Rosemary Nixon

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Kalila

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Rosemary Nixon

Summary

Kalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daughter's birth also heralds the news of her congenital heart condition. In this startlingly inventive novel, Rosemary Nixon braids light and darkness into a narrative chain pulled exquisitely taut. Through Maggie and Brodie's shifting viewpoints, the isolating impenetrability of hospital life, the mediation of physics, music, and family, Nixon propels the reader into unmapped emotional terrain where a shell-shocked family grapples with the horror, joy, and mystery of impermanence. The result is a spellbinding tale, provocative for the emotions and the intellect

Target audience

adult

Classification