Waiting for Columbus

Name: Waiting for Columbus
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Thomas Trofimuk
ISBN: 9781441706522

Author: Thomas Trofimuk

Narrator: Grover Gardner

Unabridged: 10 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 08/25/2009

Categories: Fiction, Psychological

Synopsis

Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, a man who answers only to the name of Christopher Columbus is delivered to a mental institution in Sevilla, Spain. Nurse Consuela, a lonely young woman searching for love, who listens to his fantastical tales of adventure and romance day after day, tries desperately to make some sense of why this man has been locked up. Waiting for Columbus vividly and tenderly explores the fragility of the mind when faced with incomprehensible pain and is a timely look at how the psychological reverberations of terrorism continue long after the blast.

About Thomas Trofimuk

Thomas Trofimuk is a writer, editor, and journalism instructor. His first novel, The 52nd Poem, won the Georges Bugnet Award for Best First Novel and the City of Edmonton Book Prize. Doubting Yourself to the Bone, his critically acclaimed second novel was a number-one bestseller (Edmonton Journal) and one of the Globe and Mail’s Best Books of the Year. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, with his wife and daughter.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Thomas

Well, of course, I think it's brilliant. I wrote it.......more

Goodreads review by Sophie

Author: Thomas Trofimuk Published: 03/09/2010 Recommended for: fans of historical fiction/romance When I started reading this book it immediately caught hold of my attention and just wouldn't let it go at all! This book was extremely addictive I just wouldn't put the book down. This is the first book t......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer

Book Description from Shelfari: A man arrives at an insane asylum in contemporary Spain claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that led him to break with reality, lie at the center of this novel. Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, the......more