Land: A Novel Emma Otheguy oil companies and missionaries

oil companies and missionaries

” —Ann Patchett

no matter what is happening

But after she is forced to move the cat shelter

we’ll journey from the microscopic to the vast

Land: A Novel Emma Otheguy oil companies and missionariesThe award winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait, returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger. On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Toms and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is