Forest Green

De: Kate Pullinger

Narrado por: Jonathan Widdifield

For readers of Elizabeth Strout and Anne Tyler, a powerful, heartrending novel about a man on the run from himself, by Governor General's Award-winning author Kate Pullinger.

On a rain-soaked Vancouver sidewalk in 1995, a homeless man fights for breath. Forest Green is the story of how he ended up there.

Arthur Lunn is a golden boy who spends long summer days roaming the hills and swimming in the lakes of the Okanagan Valley. But the Great Depression is destroying lives, even in Art's remote and bucolic hometown. Soon, Art finds himself caught up in a battle between the town and the vagrants flowing through it, and before long the tension reaches a boiling point.

A catastrophe follows--and changes everything. The trauma from this event shapes and haunts Art's life moving forward, from his experiences as a soldier in World War II to his reckless, nomadic working days in logging camps across British Columbia to his turbulent relationship with his one great love--a woman he cannot believe he deserves.

Painful, poignant, yet full of hope, Forest Green explores how trauma can warp our lives while love can help us to mend.

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Pullinger's beautiful writing captures the sweep of a life."
—Toronto Star

"[This] novel evokes a lifespan turned paltry and ruinous by the reverberations of one childhood event. Forest Green is a spare, economical novel . . . [and an] artful portrait of steady personal erosion."
—Vancouver Sun

"On a rainy Vancouver day, Art Lunn lies tangled up in a blanket in a doorway. Estranged from family, the homeless man finds solace in his memories. . . . Lyrical prose by the Governor General's Literary Award-winner slowly unravels the past that led to this present. . . . The poignant glimpses and fragments take shape to reveal how childhood trauma can set decades of misfortune in motion."
—Zoomer

"Kate Pullinger renders Art Lunn's tumultuous life in episodes that have the clarity of tree rings. This slim, engrossing novel holds worlds, and its complicated central character is offered up to us with deep and unwavering empathy."
—Catherine Bush, bestselling author of The Rules of Engagement, Claire's Head and Blaze Island

"I read Forest Green in one go, gripped and charmed and moved by its Everyman logger protagonist and all he lives through."
—Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of The Wonder and Room

"At the same time intimate and sweeping, Forest Green tells the story of a single man's life, and the history of a family, an industry, a nation. Pullinger expertly and sensitively reveals the different stages of her character's life, and the way it has been shaped by both inside and outside pressures."
—Johanna Skibsrud, award-winning author of The Sentimentalists and Island

"Childhood wonder and promise collide with a day whose lifelong repercussions Springsteen might have penned had he decided to turn to prose and reimagine Nesbit's The Railway Children. Pullinger's new novel is a freedom song for the working man."
—Kathleen Winter, #1 bestselling author of Annabel and Lost in September