Glorious Boy

Name: Glorious Boy
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781597098892
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By Aimee Liu

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Set in 1942, Glorious Boy follows aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her civil surgeon husband Shep as they face evacuation from the Andaman Islands amidst the Japanese invasion during World War II. Their four-year-old son Ty is mysteriously mute, and his bond with local girl Naila is crucial. When Ty and Naila vanish just before evacuation, Shep stays behind to find them while Claire reaches Calcutta, only to learn of the Japanese occupation and the severing of all access to the islands. The narrative unfolds as Claire, Shep, and Naila take extraordinary risks, drawing on their deep knowledge of the islands to rescue their beloved "glorious boy."
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Ideal for readers of historical fiction interested in World War II's lesser-known theatres, cultural encounters, and emotionally rich narratives exploring family, sacrifice, and colonial histories.

On a remote island in British India, a mute four-year-old and the local girl who cares for him disappear on the eve of Japanese occupation, forcing the boy's parents, a young anthropologist and her physician husband, to take drastic measures to save the children.

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It's 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old, Ty. They cannot, however, take Naila, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her.

The morning of the evacuation, both children disappear. With time running out, Shep forces Claire onto the ship while he stays behind to find their son. But just days after landing in Calcutta, Claire learns that the Japanese have taken the Andamans—and cut off all access to her missing family.

In the desperate odyssey that follows, Claire, Shep, and Naila will all take unimaginable risks while drawing deeply from their knowledge of these unique islands to save their beloved Glorious Boy.

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"An absolutely gorgeous historical novel about ambition, culture clash, love, atonement, and one silent boy, set against the backdrop of a tribe in the Andamans struggling with British rule. So blisteringly alive, you feel the swampy heat and the bugs; so emotionally true, it grips at every page. Just magnificent and not to be missed." —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling author

"Aimee Liu tears a forgotten footnote from history and brings it to life in an epic tale of family, culture clashes, rebellion, and occupation in a remote penal colony. A stirring indictment of humanity's brutality, Liu's heartbreaking novel is a testament to love, betrayal, and sacrifice."

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781597098892

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 June 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Red Hen Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 344

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Aimee Liu Fiction General Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction

About the Author

Aimee Liu is the bestselling author of the novels Flash House, Cloud Mountain, and Face and the memoirs Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, published as a Literary Guild Super Release, and serialized in Good Housekeeping. She’s received a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Bosque Fiction Prize, and special mention by the Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, the Los Angeles Times, Poets & Writers, and many other periodicals and anthologies. A past president of the national literary organization PEN Center USA, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and is on the faculty of Goddard College’s MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend, WA. She lives in Los Angeles. More at aimeeliu.net