Like the Appearance of Horses, Andrew Krivak
Like the Appearance of Horses, Andrew Krivak
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Like the Appearance of Horses

Author: Andrew Krivak

Narrator: Jamie Renell

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/07/2024


Synopsis

Rooted in the small, mountain town of Dardan, Pennsylvania, where patriarch Jozef Vinich settled after surviving World War I, Like the Appearance of Horses immerses us in the intimate lives of a family whose fierce bonds have been shaped by the great conflicts of the past century.

After Bexhet Konar escapes fascist Hungary and crosses the ocean to find Jozef, the man who saved his life in 1919, he falls in love with Jozef's daughter, Hannah, enlists in World War II, and is drawn into a personal war of revenge. Many years later, their youngest son, Samuel, is taken prisoner in Vietnam and returns home with a heroin addiction and deep physical and psychological wounds. As Samuel travels his own path toward healing, his son will graduate from Annapolis as a Marine on his way to Iraq.

In spare, breathtaking prose, Like the Appearance of Horses is the freestanding, culminating novel in Andrew Krivak's award-winning Dardan Trilogy, which began with The Sojourn and The Signal Flame. It is a story about borders drawn within families as well as around nations, and redrawn by ethnicity, prejudice, and war. It is also a tender story of love and how it is tested by duty, loyalty, and honor.

About Andrew Krivak

Andrew Krivak is the author of The Bear, a Mountain Book Competition winner, Massachusetts Book Award winner, and NEA Big Read selection, as well as the novels of the Dardan Trilogy: The Sojourn, a National Book Award finalist and winner of both the Chautauqua Prize and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; The Signal Flame, a Chautauqua Prize finalist; and Like the Appearance of Horses. He lives with his wife and three children in Somerville, Massachusetts, and Jaffrey, New Hampshire.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on July 30, 2023

No matter what Krivak writes, it’s hypnotic. His strength is in his prose with the narrative following. It could be the most mundane subject and I would happily drift off to lala land. This is a multi generational story. The latest in the triology following The Sojourn and the The Signal Flame: A Nov......more

Goodreads review by Angela M on March 19, 2023

4.5 stars This is a story of men who go to war, a multigenerational story spanning decades. It moves around in time, telling of the family first introduced in The Sojourn and The Signal Flame. Jozef Vinich is a man I was happy to meet in the first novels. This one is focused on the wars fought in by......more

Goodreads review by Karen on February 26, 2023

This was good.. However I was hoping it would be more of a continuation of this family that just enthralled me in The Signal Flame which I absolutely loved! The beginning of the book I thought was excellent.. focused on the members of the family, then a lot of the rest of the book involved two of the......more

Goodreads review by Julie on April 01, 2025

Completing the Vinich-Konar family story that began with The Sojourn and The Signal Flame, Like the Appearance of Horses sweeps up the various threads of this complicated tapestry and weaves them into a finished narrative. Interestingly, it's my least favorite of the three (least being relative her......more

Goodreads review by Ann on May 29, 2023

This latest (and last in the trilogy) novel of the Vinich/Konar family once again has overwhelmed me with the beauty of both the writing and the storytelling. The reader sees the older generations move through their adult lives and also sees the younger generations grow and face their own lives and......more