Displaying 1 of 1 2019 Format: Audio Book on CD, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Sound Recording Author: Marlantes, Karl, author. Title: Deep river : a novel / Karl Marlantes. Edition: Unabridged. Publisher, Date: [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2019] ℗2019 Description: 21 audio discs (26 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. audio file CD audio Summary: As the Koski siblings strive to rebuild lives and families in an America in flux, they also try to hold fast to the traditions of a home they left behind in Finland. Subjects: Finnish Americans -- Fiction. Emigration and immigration -- Fiction. Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Fiction. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Historical / General. Emigration and immigration. Finnish Americans. Frontier and pioneer life. United States -- Emigration and immigration -- Fiction. United States. Washington (State) Genre: Audiobooks. Fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. Historical fiction. Other Contributor: Pinchot, Bronson, narrator. Notes: Compact discs. Read by Bronson Pinchot. ISBN: 9781538540299 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) 1538540290 (sound recording ; Blackstone Library CD) 9781538540305 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) 1538540304 (sound recording ; Blackstone Retail CD) 9781538540305 Publisher or Distributor Number: ZEcgf6 OCLC: 1105607141 System Availability: 2 # System items in: 2 # Local items: 1 # Local items in: 1 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Awards Large Cover Image Trade Reviews Library Journal ReviewMarlantes's debut, Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, a story heavily influenced by the author's experience as a marine, received critical praise for its unblinking portrayal of innocence, patriotism, and violence. Here, Marlantes pushes deep into his family's past to create a generational tale about Finnish immigrants, American capitalism, and forgotten heroes. Inspired by the 19th-century epic poem The Kalevala and Marlantes's own family history, the narrative is set in 1900s America. Fleeing from Finland to Washington State, the Koski siblings find work in the nascent logging industry of the Pacific Northwest. Youngest daughter Aino watches her brothers and colleagues lose their limbs, health, and wages as the need for timber outpaces a concern for human capital. Swept up in the energy of the emerging labor union movement, Aino matures into a fiery advocate for organized labor and the dignity of the human spirit. However, an egalitarian ideology pits her against America's cresting wave of industrialization and its consolidation of power and wealth. Though the characters feel real, this angle can make them seem like mouthpieces for political movements at times. VERDICT An admirable work, this monomyth is dense (maybe sometimes too dense) with Marlantes's gift for lyricism and evocative language. [See Prepub Alert, 1/14/19.]-Joshua Finnell, Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY © Copyright 2019. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Publishers Weekly ReviewInspired by family history, Marlantes (Matterhorn) offers a sprawling, painstakingly realistic novel about Finnish immigrants in the Pacific Northwest during the first half of the 20th century. The saga begins in 1891 Russian-occupied Finland, when tenant farmers Maíjalíisa and Tapio Koski lose three of their six children to cholera. Six years later, their oldest surviving son, Ilmari, now 18, departs for America. By 1903, he owns a farm and blacksmith shop on Washington's Deep River and dreams of building a church. Brother Matti joins him, and soon Matti is working as a logger and dreaming of starting his own company. Seventeen-year-old sister Aino arrives last, fleeing Finland after being tortured for revolutionary activity. In America, she campaigns for the Industrial Workers of the World. During the 1920s, as IWW activity is suppressed, Aino is separated from her family and even spends time in a Chicago jail. Meanwhile, through the Depression, the Koski siblings put considerable energy into a variety of enterprises including Sampo Manufacturing (timber) and Scandinavia's Best (salmon). Their perseverance despite hard times and conflicts exemplifies Finnish "sisu," a combination of determination, courage, tenacity, and endurance. Vasutäti the Chinookan basket-weaver/healer, Aksel the fisherman/bootlegger, and Louhi the whorehouse/saloon financier, provide assistance. Marlantes's epic is packed with intriguing detail about Finnish culture, Northwest landscapes, and 20th-century American history, making for a vivid immigrant family chronicle. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved. Librarian's View Displaying 1 of 1