{"product_id":"island-of-wings-isbn-9780143120667","title":"Island of Wings","description":"\u003cb\u003e A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on  an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eExquisitely written and profoundly moving, \u003ci\u003eIsland of Wings\u003c\/i\u003e is  a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love,  and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly  beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they  arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the  minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright,  beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two  adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in  squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their  sanity-are soon threatened.\u003c\/p\u003e\"A heartbreaking tale, based on fact, about a minister and his restless  wife sent to a remote island to save souls - perhaps at the cost of their  own.\" — \u003cb\u003eJulia Keller, \u003ci\u003eThe Chicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e [selected as a Best Book of  2011]\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting yet beautiful, dark yet poetic...Drawing on historically  accurate  roots, including real-life figures Neil and Lizzie MacKenzie, Altenberg  creates a mesmerizing tapestry that will surely linger in the reader's  mind.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Island of Wings captures a world that disappears in the act  of  description, and the love, so inescapable and elusive, of the  outsiders  who try to tame it.With scrupulous attention to place,  history, and the natural world, \u003ci\u003eIsland of Wings\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story  washed by a clean and lovely kind of sorrow.\" \u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eAnne Enright, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gathering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In this winning debut, Altenberg, a trained archeologist, brings a  subtle voice to this odd bit of history, in which faith and marriage are  no match for isolation.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"'There are shades of Alistair MacLeod and of John McGahern in this  beautiful story of love and loss among the dark sea cliffs of St  Kilda.  The book tastes wonderfully of its own weather, of sea salt on  the  tongue, and I read it with a rising sense of appreciation. ISLAND  OF  WINGS is a precise, subtle, spiritually alive debut from  Karin  Altenberg..\" — \u003cb\u003eAndrew O'Hagan, author of \u003ci\u003eOur Fathers \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Based on documentary sources, this evocative debut novel enmeshes  readers in a society that no longer exists, on rugged Scottish islands  few tourists visit. Complex characters and historical events that impact  the lives of the islanders provide much to ponder and discuss.\" — \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKarin Altenberg\u003c\/b\u003e is senior advisor to the Swedish National  Heritage Board and is a fellow of the Linnean Society. She is currently  at work on her second novel. She lives in London.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302305386725,"sku":"NP9780143120667","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143120667.jpg?v=1767730217","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/island-of-wings-isbn-9780143120667","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}