The White Bone

First US edition. 8vo. Pp. xvi-[xviii], 330. Dark brown backstrip over speckled, beige paper boards, stamped in gilt to spine. Map endpapers. Jacket design by Raquel Jaramillo.

Author's third book. Nominated for both the 1998 Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the Giller Prize. A novel about a young elephant cow who is blessed with visionary powers. Imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants as they struggle to survive in a land wracked by drought and slaughter, we begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperilled, and to have that prodigious memory."

"Inspired imagination and research have created a marvel of a book. [T]he language, social structure, intellectual and spiritual world of elephants are as real as the fabric of human life. Absolutely compelling." –Alice Munro