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The Names of Rivers

By Buckman, Daniel

Publishers Summary:
By the author of the critically acclaimed WATER IN DARKNESS, NAMES OF RIVERS is a tightly crafted search for redemption and forgiveness within the shadows of a family's military past. Set in a 1980s rustbelt town south of Chicago, the novel tells the story Bruno Konick, an aged veteran of "the good war" who has spent a lifetime haunted by his own actions during the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp; and his grandson Luke, a teenage boy forever dreaming of heroism in a post-Vietnam America where duty, honor, and country have become don't let the man get you. Together, they watch Luke's father Bruce, an unemployed factory worker badly disfigured during the siege of Khe Sanh, wander towards his suicidal end in a cornfield ruined by a freakish ice storm. When the youngest son Len unexpectedly returns home, recovered from the heroin addiction he learned as a hospital corpsman in Saigon, he brings with him an old wound that Bruno Konick can never let himself touch.

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ISBN

978-1-88845-129-0

Publisher

Akashic Books