The Persistence of Memory: A Novel canada and the brave little girl

and the brave little girl who loved him enough to believe in his dream

When twelve-year-old Della Kelly finds her mother furiously digging black seeds from a watermelon in the middle of the night and talking to people who aren't there

But when one climber dies in what everyone else assumes is a freak accident

A Beckoning Hellfire speaks to the delusion of war's idealism

spirited men and women who dared to call it home

The Persistence of Memory: A Novel canada and the brave little girl"Throws all its chips in the air like a dazzling Nabokovian trick."Daphne Merkin, Los Angeles Times Book Review In this humane yet savagely witty portrait of apartheid South Africa in its waning years, Tony Eprile renders his homeland's turbulent past with striking clarity. The Baltimore Sun declared Eprile's "horrifying yet heartrendingly beautiful" prose to be "comparable to his fellow authors of Apartheid Andre Brink and Nadine Gordimer." As the