Dimensions
130 x 197 x 19mm
Set during the 1970s in suburban Ontario, 'The Electrical Field' evokes a bleak and forbidding landscape dominated by the pylons and cables of an electrical field. The community that lives beneath these modern giants is rocked by a multiple murder, a Japanese woman and her lover are found shot to death in their trysting place.
The action is seen through the eyes of Asako Saito, a seemingly ordinary, very lonely woman who has never married and spent her life looking after her bed-ridden father and younger brother. As the novel progresses, it slowly reveals all those implicated in the murder and exposes the truth behind stories that haunt the claustrophic little society.
Winner of The Commonwealth Writers Prize: Best First Book.
