What Is Left the Daughter（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his
parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different
bridges—the result of their separate involvements with the same
compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring
actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle
Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin
Tilda.
　　Setting in motion the novel’s chain of life-altering passions and
the wartime perfidy at its core is the arrival of the German
student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Actual historical
incidents—including a German U-boat’s sinking of the Nova
Scotia–Newfoundland ferry Caribou—lend intense narrative power to
Norman’s uncannily layered story.
　　Wyatt’s account of the astonishing events leading up to his
fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later.
What Is Left the Daughter is Howard Norman at his celebrated
best.

　　Two of HOWARD NORMAN’s novels, The Northern Lights (1987) and
The Bird Artist (1994), were nominated for the National Book Award.
His other novels include The Museum Guard, The Haunting of L, and
Devotion. His books have been translated into twelve languages.
Norman is the recipient of a Lannan Award in fiction, and he
teaches at the University of Maryland.