A Shout in the Ruins (Broché)

When war arrives, plantation owner Anthony Levallois sees an opportunity to tighten his dominion over those around him. Bob Rawls, a wounded veteran, loses his grip on a world he no longer understands as his daughter Emily, finds herself married to Levallois. Nurse and RawIs are enslaved at the plantation but overcome impossible odds to be together only to find that the promise of coming freedom may not be something they will live to see.
And a century later George Seldom, a man orphaned by the storm of the Civil War travels south in search of the place he once called home and an answer to a profond question : can love exist in a place where, for 400 years, violence has been the strongest form of intimacy ? Written with the same emotional intensity that made The Yellow Birds one of the most celebrated novels of the past decade, A Shout in The Ruins cements Powers' place at the forefront of American letters.