In a masterful debut, award-winning poet and short fiction writer Michael Crummey crafts a haunting tale of startling power. Told in elegant, sensual prose, River Thieves is a richly imagined story about love, loss and the heartbreaking compromises--both personal and political--that undermine lives. At the turn of the nineteenth century, naval officer David Buchan arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contact...