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Touch a novel

Returning home on the eve of his mother's death, an Anglican priest is haunted by memories of his far northern Canada hometown and its intertwined history with his family.

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  • "Returning home on the eve of his mother's death, an Anglican priest is haunted by memories of his far northern Canada hometown and its intertwined history with his family."
  • "Returning home on the eve of his mother's death, an Anglican priest is haunted by memories of his far northern Canada hometown and its intertwined history with his family."@en
  • "Stephen, an Anglican priest, returns to his hometown in northern British Columbia on the eve of his mother's funeral. He is forced to confront the losses of his past and the wood witches and forest spirits that surround the village."
  • "On the eve of his mother's funeral, Stephen, a middle-aged priest, sits down to write her eulogy. But as the evening creeps into night, he is haunted by memories from his childhood: birthday trips to the cuts with his father; the moment his sister slipped under the thick winter ice forever; and the memorable day his grandfather, Jeannot, came home after a thirty-year absence with a bundle of bones."
  • "In Sawgamet, a north woods boomtown gone bust, the cold of winter breaks the glass of the schoolhouse thermometer, and the dangers of working in the cuts are overshadowed by the mysteries and magic lurking in the woods. Stephen, a pastor, is at home on the eve of his mother's funeral, thirty years after the mythic summer his grandfather returned to the town in search of his beloved but long-dead wife. And like his grandfather, Stephen is forced to confront the losses of his past."
  • "On the eve of his mother's funeral, Stephen, a middle-aged priest, sits down to write her eulogy. But as evening creeps into night, he is haunted by memories from his childhood. Weaving the stories from three generations of one family, 'Touch' tells the founding tale of Sawgamet, originally a gold-mining village."@en
  • "Aan de vooravond van zijn moeders begrafenis herinnert een anglicaanse priester van middelbare leeftijd zich zijn voorouders en de geschiedenis van een ermee verweven Noord-Canadees grensdorp."
  • "On the eve of his mother's funeral, Stephen, a middle-aged priest, sits down to write her eulogy. But as the evening creeps into night, he is haunted by memories from his childhood: birthday trips to the cuts with his father; the moment his sister slipped under the thick winter ice forever; and the memorable day his grandfather, Jeannot, came home after a thirty-year absence with a bundle of bones..."

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  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"

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  • "Les bois de Sawgamet : roman"
  • "Touch a novel"@en
  • "Aangeraakt"
  • "Touch : a novel"
  • "Isens greb"
  • "Isens greb"@da
  • "Les bois de Sawgamet roman"
  • "Il ghiaccio fra le mani"@it
  • "Il ghiaccio fra le mani"
  • "Touch"@en
  • "Touch"