The Boiling Season

By Christopher Hebert

An ambitious young man struggles to define himself and his future while his Caribbean homeland plunges into a violent revolution, in a novel that recalls Ann Patchett's Bel Canto and Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day: Hopwood Award-winning writer Christopher Hebert's The Boiling Season. A passionate, intimate exploration of one man's loss of innocence and reclamation of identity, this compassionate and compellingly character-driven novel will speak to readers of Barabara Kingsolver and J. M. Coetzee, as Hebert's illuminating and visceral portrayal of a popular insurrection against an all-powerful dictator--a backdrop that echoes events in Haiti--beautifully translates the struggles of our contemporary world into a work of soaring and unforgettable literary fiction.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062088513
• ISBN13: 9780062088512
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.3"