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Every Lost Country (2010)

by Steven Heighton(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0307397394 (ISBN13: 9780307397393)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf Canada

review 1: Heighton has fashioned a rapid-fire, suspense-filled narrative based on an actual event. This is the remote, mountainous country where Nepal borders Tibet. Wade Lawson wants to be the first climber to scale the dangerous peak of Kyatruk and has assembled an expedition that includes Dr. Lewis Book and filmmaker Amaris McRae. His plans are disrupted when Chinese soldiers fire on a group of Tibetan refugees fleeing for the Nepali border and Book and McRae, crossing into Chinese territory to help the wounded, are taken prisoner. Despite these losses, Lawson pushes forward with his climb. Meanwhile, Book and McRae engage in a life and death struggle to care for the wounded Tibetans while in Chinese custody. Unavoidably, the novel makes a political statement, but this is a human... more drama that unfolds with the emotional urgency and riveting immediacy of cinema.
review 2: The story is based (in the beginning) on an actual event - the disturbing chase & shooting of Tibetan refugees by Chinese soldiers, witnessed by a climbing expedition on a pass in the mountains between Tibet & Nepal. What I liked most is that the story (pageturner) doesn't simplify the characters or their reactions to the event. We get to see the internal struggles, fears and loves - the thoughts behind the characters' decisions to act or to stand by, to stay or to follow. Each is humanly complicated, in the way they relate to the other characters, and how they react to the events and surroundings they find themselves so unexpectedly attached to. less

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