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The
2005 Award
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Easter Island by Jennifer Vanderbes
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Easter
Island, 1913. Englishwoman Elsa Beazley arrives on the remote South Pacific
isle with her new husband and her beloved but troubled sister, Alice. For
Edward, an anthropologist sent by the Royal Geographical Society, the trip
is a rare opportunity to study the island's colossal moai statues - and
to become acquainted with his much younger bride. For Elsa, it is the chance
to make a home far from those who would take away Alice's freedom. But as
Edward begins his research, Elsa embarks on her own journey of discovery,
investigating the island's elusive history and the customs of the natives.
Unearthing a baffling series of ancient tablets, Elsa finds a passion and
a calling - as a breathtaking mystery unwinds around her. Sixty years later, another woman arrives on Easter Island. An American botanist, Greer Farraday, has come to escape a painful past - and to regain her professional footing. Surrounded by an eclectic mix of native islanders and fellow scientists, energised by the ideas swirling around her research, she feels herself come alive again. A series of brilliant revelations brings to life the parallel quests of these two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuries-old mysteries of Easter Island. Slowly unearthing the island's haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever.
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Jennifer Vanderbes is a graduate of Yale University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She was a McCreight Fellow in Fiction at the University of Wisconsin, and most recently was the Fellow in Creative Writing at Colgate University. He non-fiction has appeared in The New York Times and The Washington Post. Easter Island is her first novel. |
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