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Found in the treacherous Strait of Gibraltar, a man who answers only to the name of Christopher Columbus is delivered to a mental institution in Sevilla, Spain. Nurse Consuela, a lonely young woman searching for love, who listens to his fantastical tales of adventure and romance day after day, tries desperately to make some sense of why this man has been locked up. Waiting for Columbus vividly and tenderly explores the fragility of the mind when faced with incomprehensible pain and is a timely look at how the psychological reverberations of terrorism continue long after the blast.
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"One of the buzzy books of the Canadian fiction year…Part romance, part mystery, the novel has been drawing early comparisons to Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient…Waiting for Columbus is a mind-blower in its own right, a story unmoored in time by virtue of its mysterious protagonist…"
Edmonton Journal
"Trofimuk is a master of feeling. -Globe and Mail"
Trofimuk is a master of feeling. Globe and Mail
"Grover Gardner's sensitive and well-paced reading gives cohesion to a rambling story. This is not an audiobook to multitask to-as reality and illusion are in danger of becoming merged for the listener as well as for the patient."
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