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"Extravagant and absorbing ... I didn?t want it to end. " Audrey Niffenegger
Penguin
July 2005
512 pages ISBN: 0143035452 Trade Size
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Contemporary
One of the most widely praised and rapturously entertaining
first novels in recent years begins with a little girl
falling down an abandoned mineshaft in Michigan’s Upper
Peninsula. Her name is Ursula Wong, she’s part Chinese,
part Finnish, only two years old, and soon the dangerous
effort to rescue her has an entire country glued to the TV.
As it follows that effort, Ursula, Under re-creates the
chain of ancestors, across two thousand years, whose lives
culminate in the fragile miracle of a little girl
underground: a Chinese alchemist in the third century bc,
the orphaned playmate to a seventeenth- century Swedish
queen, Ursula's great-great-grandfather who was the
casualty of a mining accident that eerily foreshadows
Ursula’s dilemma, and many more. A work of symphonic
richness and profound empathy, Ursula, Under dramatically
demonstrates that no one is truly alone.
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