Fall on Your Knees
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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". 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. As of 2014, it has been published in 23 territories and translated into 19 languages.