Ethan Canin "Carry Me Across the Water".

A very human story. Real emotions and feelings of the main character as he goes through his life from boyhood to old age.

“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in America.

At the defining moments that reveal character and shape fate—a shocking encounter with a Japanese soldier in a cave during World War II, the audacious decision to start a brewery in Pittsburgh and a violent reaction against threats to its independent success, a vacation in Barbados, during which his beloved wife mysteriously wanders off, the birth of his grandson — August’s instincts are determinative in a way that illuminates how lives unfold at the deepest levels.

This is a brilliant, suspenseful, surprising novel by one of America’s finest writers. Publisher’s Weekly called Ethan Canin’s "For Kings and Planets" “Masterful… a classic parable of the human condition,” and the same can be said about 'Carry Me Across the Water.'"

New book. Book in excellent visual and technical condition.