The Communists Daughter, Dennis Bock
The Communists Daughter, Dennis Bock
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The Communist's Daughter

Author: Dennis Bock

Narrator: T. Ryder Smith

Unabridged: 9 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 08/22/2014

Synopsis

The Communist's Daughter is a sweeping novel of love and betrayal spanning the trenches of the Great War to the horrors of Spain and China. Norman Bethune was a visionary whose dedication touched millions. Rebelling in childhood against his father's religion, he finds a calling himself, saving lives on the battlefield. In Republican Spain he fulfills his idealism, yet before long politics destroy his romance and drive him to seek refuge in China. Here, in service to a man eventually known as Mao Zedong, Bethune begins this account of his life and his cherished beliefs for the only person who still makes a future seem possible: the daughter he has never seen.

About Dennis Bock

DENNIS BOCK’s book of stories, Olympia, won the CAA Jubilee Award, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Betty Trask Award. His novels include The Communist’s Daughter and The Ash Garden, a #1 bestseller, a winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Award and a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the Kiriyama Prize and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award. His most recent novel, Going Home Again, was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Dennis Bock lives in Toronto.  

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jen on April 22, 2014

I don't want to be too harsh on this book because it is well written, but I'm glad I'm finished. I wasn't sure if the character was pretentious, of if the writing was. I'm sort of assuming it was the former, as he repeatedly makes mention of the fact that many people didn't like his ways and how self-......more

Goodreads review by Garth on March 10, 2018

Norman Bethune 1890-1939 is a bit of an embarrassment to Canada, a communist doctor whose home in Gravenhurst is a major tourist attraction for Chinese Diplomatic and Party Elites. Before the discovery of modern antibiotics such as penicillin he died of sepsis after sustaining a cut while spending e......more

Goodreads review by Christine on September 25, 2007

Really gorgeous writing. It's the kind of book that you end up taking phrases away, wanting to immediately internalize the beautifully worked out prose. It was satisfying and filling- not in a way that is immediately forgotten. Most of the book, you feel as if you're just ambling along watching the......more

Goodreads review by Sarah - Exploring All Genres on February 18, 2015

2.5 stars......more

Goodreads review by Ben on February 19, 2018

The Communist's Daughter by Dennis Bock is the Together We Read Digital Book Club via the Toronto Public Library book for the February 15 – March 1 2018 period. Although I cheated and picked up the physical book from my parents' shelf – hopefully they won't kick me out of the Digital Book Club for i......more

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