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| Author | Ann-Marie MacDonald |
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| Language | English |
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| Publisher | Knopf Canada, Simon & Schuster |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | Canada |
| Pages | 566 (1st edition) |
| Awards | Commonwealth Writers Prize |
| ISBN | 9780394281599 |
| OCLC | 35035930 |
| Website | Publisher's website |
Fall on Your Knees is a 1996 novel by Canadian playwright, actor and novelist Ann-Marie MacDonald. The novel takes place in late 19th and early 20th centuries and chronicles four generations of the complex Piper Family. It is a story of "inescapable family bonds, terrible secrets, and of miracles".[1] Beginning in Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I and ending in New York City, the troubled Piper sisters depend on one another for survival.
The book was featured by Oprah's Book Club in 2002.[2] As of 2014, it has been published in 23 territories and translated into 19 languages.
- ^ "Fall On Your Knees". National Arts Centre. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
- ^ "Fall on Your Knees, by Ann-Marie MacDonald". oprah.com. January 24, 2002. Retrieved May 8, 2020.