A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates.
Cressida Mayfield has gone missing. The desperate search yields but one clue; she was last seen in the company of Corporal Brett Kincaid, Iraq veteran - and the ex-fiancé of Cressida's sister. As the deeply traumatized Kincaid struggles to mount a defence, he finds his memories of that terrible night are tangled with those of the most appalling wartime savagery.
Dark and riveting, the nerve-shredding Carthage unravels the devastating consequences of violence on two young lives, while probing the very limits of our capacity for forgiveness.
| ISBN: | 9780007485758 |
| Publication date: | 23rd October 2014 |
| Author: | Joyce Carol Oates |
| Publisher: | 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 482 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss Narrative theme: Social issues Psychological thriller War, combat and military adventure fiction Family Drama |