A young girl’s disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Cressida Mayfield has gone missing. The desperate search yields but one clue; she was last seen in the company of Corporal Brett Kincaid, Iraq veteran – and the ex-fiancé of Cressida’s sister. As the deeply traumatized Kincaid struggles to mount a defence, he finds his memories of that terrible night are tangled with those of the most appalling wartime savagery. Dark and riveting, the nerve-shredding Carthage unravels the devastating consequences of violence on two young lives, while probing the very limits of our capacity for forgiveness.
ISBN: | 9780007485758 |
Publication date: | 23rd October 2014 |
Author: | Joyce Carol Oates |
Publisher: | Fourth Estate Ltd an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 400 pages |
Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |