The Stone Carvers Jane Urquhart by Jane Urquhart 9780142003589, 0142003581, B0031O40XA instant download after payment.

Spanning three decades and two continents, Jane Urquhart’s novel follows the story of ordinary lives marked by obsession and transformed by art.

At the centre of a large cast of immigrants, labourers and dreamers is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master carver. She is a seamstress haunted by a love affair cut short by the First World War, and by the frequent disappearances of her brother Tilman, afflicted since childhood with wanderlust. From Ontario, they are swept into a colossal venture in Europe years later, as Toronto sculptor Walter Allward shapes his ambitious plans for a war memorial at Vimy, France.

A Canadian novelist’s multi-generational story of a family of carvers used the First World War as a way to look at memory, history and the redemptive powers of art.

"Jane Urquhart takes on large ideas here: religion, obsession, sex, history, love. But her overarching theme is once again the power of art – in this case, carving – to give meaning to incomprehensible suffering and loss. The book’s second half centres around a historical figure, Walter Allward, sculptor of the massive Canadian memorial at Vimy Ridge."  -  Maureen Garvie, Quill & Quire

Jane Urquhart is a much-decorated novelist and poet. Coming from immigrant stock, her own family heritage informs The Stone Carvers. She is the author of seven internationally acclaimed novels entitled, The Whirlpool, Changing Heaven, Away, The Underpainter, The Stone Carvers, A Map of Glass, and Sanctuary Line.