The Communist's Daughter [Paperback]

Dennis Bocks novelThe Communists Daughtermet with praise from readers and reviewers the moment it reached bookstore shelves, debuting as an instantMacleansbestseller. This is the story of legendary Canadian doctor Norman Bethunevisionary, radical, martyr. Amidst the death and chaos of the Japanese armys advance into the hills of northern China, Bethune composes a wrenching letter to his daughter, a small child he has never seen, the daughter of a woman abandoned in war-torn Spain.

Set against the tumult of the late 1930s,The Communists Daughteris a remarkable depiction of the moral ambiguities of war, political idealism and personal responsibility, an elegant, passionate novel that unfolds against the sweep of history.