Isbn: 9781551522265 - soucouyant: a novel of forgetting (25 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Soucouyant This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Finalist, Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award Winner, ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award (GOLD), Literary Fiction Shortlisted for Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (BC Book Prizes) Shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book Shortlisted for City of Toronto Book Award Shortlisted for the Amazon / Books In Canada First Novel Award Shortlisted for the ReLit Award, Best Novel Shortlisted for One Book, One Vancouver Now in its 3rd printing!A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This extraordinary first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia.The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darknessaher arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget. Luminously poetic, Soucouyantmarks the arrival of a major new literary talent in Canada. German-language rights sold to Suhrkamp. Ex Library. 220 pages.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Es scheint, als habe die Zeit das Haus am Rande Torontos übersehen. Und auch seine Bewohnerin, die seit Jahren immer seltsamer und vergeßlicher wird, lebt ganz im einsamen Rhythmus ihres dünner werdenden Gedächtnisses. Doch hat sich zwischen ihr und ihrem Sohn, der sie vor zwei Jahren als Teenager verließ, manches verändert. Jetzt ist er zurück und versucht nicht ohne Schuldgefühle, aber vor allem mit der Neugier des Spurensuchers, die verbliebenen Gedächtnissplitter der Mutter wieder zusammenzufügen. Wie erlebte sie ihre Kindheit in Trinidad, wie den Abschied von der Heimat und die Ankunft in der Fremde Und worin besteht das Geheimnis, das ihre Existenz und auch seine eigene stets geprägt hat Mehr und mehr beginnt er zu verstehen, daß auch seine Biographie auf dem Spiel steht. Die Erinnerung kehrt in ihrer beider Leben ein wie der Dämon aus den alten Geschichten der Karibik.David Chariandy erzählt eindringlich, zuweilen drastisch und komisch. Mit seiner lebensnahen Anschaulichkeit und seiner frischen, von keiner Konvention stillgestellten Sprache hat dieser Roman über persönlichen und kulturellen Gedächtnisverlust bei den kanadischen Lesern begeisterten Zuspruch gefunden, und er wurde für den wichtigsten Buchpreis Kanadas, den Governor General's Literary Award, nominiert. …

Zustand: New. Es scheint, als habe die Zeit das Haus am Rande Torontos uebersehen. Und auch seine Bewohnerin, die seit Jahren immer seltsamer und vergesslicher wird, lebt ganz im einsamen Rhythmus ihres duenner werdenden Gedaechtnisses. Doch hat sich zwischen ihr und ihrem S.