From the publisher itself about the work: “Late 18th-century in Mockbeggar, a cluster of houses clinging to the icy coast of northern Newfoundland. Abe Strapp, the dissipated heir of the area’s largest mercantile house, is about to marry the daughter of a rival trader to seal his grip on the entire bay. But, on the wedding day, bursts the person who despises him most in the world: his own sister, Widow Caines, who wears her dead husband’s clothes, puffs on a pipe, and, flouting laws that deny women the right to property, has taken the reins of the coast’s second major enterprise. With a single revelation, it blows up the wedding. This marks the first strike of a war that will endure for years: brother and sister entangle themselves in a spiral of sabotage and vengeance, contending for increasingly scarce resources and forcing the entire town to take sides.”
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Author: Michael Crummey. Title: The Adversaries. Translation: Diego de los Santos. Publisher: Impedimenta. Retailer: Todos tus libros.
Rating: 5/5