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The 2011 Award

 

Mitchell

Under This Unbroken Sky

by Shandi Mitchell

 

 

Nominated by:

  • Halifax Public Libraries, Canada.

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Viking Canada

 

The complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

 
In the spring of 1938, Teodor Mykolayenko returns to his family after nearly two years in prison for the crime of trying to feed them. Given shelter by his sister Anna, his wife, Maria, and their five children barely survived on the harsh and brutal Canadian prairie landscape. Channelling a determination gained from escaping starvation and Stalin's crimes in the Ukraine, Teodor is committed to making a home. With unbending resolve, he takes to the land and as the crops grow, his family heals and strengthens, but their comfort is soon challenged: Anna's rogue husband returns with an unforgivable plan. Mesmerizing and passionate, Under This Unbroken Sky is an astonishing tale of family, love, betrayal, and the resiliency of the human spirit. 

 
(From Publisher).

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Shandi Mitchell is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and screenwriter. Under This Unbroken Sky is her first novel and winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best First Book Award (Canada and Caribbean region), the 2010 Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, and the 2010 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. It was also named one of the Top 10 Booklist Best First Novels. Shandi spent her childhood on a military base on the prairies and now makes her home in Nova Scotia with her husband, Alan, and their dog, Annie.

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

Literary merit. Very well received by library staff and patrons alike.

 

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