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Thomas Trofimuk author of Waiting for Columbus
Thomas Trofimuk discusses the various voices that weave together the story in Waiting for Columbus.
photo credit: Randall Edwards
Thomas Trofimuk discusses the various voices that weave together the story in Waiting for Columbus.
photo credit: Randall Edwards
Hardcover | 408 pages | Fiction - Literary
McClelland & Stewart | 978-0-7710-8546-8
August 25, 2009 | $32.99
In a Spanish mental institution in 2004, a man who believes he is Christopher Columbus begins to tell his story. Nurse Consuela listens, hoping to discover what tragedy drove this educated, cultured man to retreat from reality. This Columbus is not heroic: he falls in love with every woman he meets, and, on land, he has absolutely no sense of direction. More troublingly, he is convinced a terrible tragedy is coming. Yet with each tale, Consuela draws closer to this lost navigator.
