Cape Breton's Sigh

★The only novel by Alistair Macleod, the author of "The Red Gift Lost in the Sea Wind" ★It took 13 years to create, ranking first among the 100 best works in Atlantic Canada ★Winner of many international awards such as the Dublin Literary Award, the Dartmouth Book Award, and the Canadian Tripetal Book Award. Alistair Macleod (1936-2014), a famous Canadian novelist. He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada, but when he was ten years old, he moved with his parents back to his ancestral home, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Atlantic Canada. He became a teacher after graduating from Nova Scotia Teachers College in his early years. Later, he studied for bachelor's and master's degrees at St. Francis In order to maintain his education as a young man, he worked as a logger, coal miner and fisherman. In 1969, after teaching in the English Department of Indiana University for three years, he returned to Canada and taught English and writing at the University of Windsor in Ontario until his retirement. MacLeod published only two collections of short stories in his lifetime, "The Lost Gift of Blood in the Sea Breeze" (1976), "When the Birds Bring the Sun" (1986), and the novel "Cape Breton Sigh" (also translated as "No Big Deal" (1999)). In 2000, his Canadian publishing house McClelland & Stewart published his two early short story collections plus two new short stories, and published the short story collection "Island". Macleod died in Windsor in April 2014. "Cape Breton Sigh" is Macleod's only novel, which took thirteen years to complete and won multiple literary book awards including the Dublin International Literary Award. In 2009, the book topped the list of "The 100 Best Books in Atlantic Canada". More than two hundred years ago, the red-haired Caron of the Macdonald family in the Scottish Highlands led his wife and children across thousands of mountains and rivers from Scotland to the distant New World, where they thrived in a land with dense forests and long winters. Later, the descendants of the red-haired Caron gradually left the island of Cape Breton and were scattered on the beaches of California, the mining areas of South America, and the deserts of Africa... But no matter how far they traveled, Cape Breton was always an eternal concern in their hearts. In the summer when the pilot whale sang to the pilot whale, the back of the boy chasing the rainbow, those legends about loyalty and betrayal, in the storm of the years, turned into a gentle and heavy sigh: "When we are loved, we become better people." The story of "Cape Breton Sigh" shuttles between "present" and "past". The protagonist Alexander Macdonald has left his hometown long ago, and his memory of the past has been blurred. However, the intersection with his brother and sister often made him inadvertently recall his childhood life and the stories of his ancestors. He finally understood the deep love of blood and the feelings of his hometown that transcend all pain and suffering. This is also a work about cultural origins, a reduced version of the history of Scottish immigration.