Discovery of Strangers

Zusatztext “What is remarkable about Wiebe’s achievement in [ The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People ] – and now, in A Discovery of Strangers – is that he is able to be, it seems, both Faulkner and Balzac at once. That is, Wiebe can construct scenes of painstaking detail and psychological insight, and combine them or frame them in exciting historical situations . . . . A Discovery of Strangers is vintage Wiebe.” — Books in Canada “Clash, crash, shock: there are plenty of clichéd verbs of collision to describe encounters between cultures. In A Discovery of Strangers , the meeting of the English and the Yellowknife Indians on whom they rely to guide them through the northlands is seldom so dramatically violent; it is, as the title hints, a gradual discover of strangeness, and all the more affecting for that . . . . A Discovery of Strangers is a triumph of translation: with unflinching understanding and the powers of a very fine storyteller, Rudy Wiebe has once again delivered us our past.” — Quill & Quire “The author is a master of descriptive prose . . . . This memorable novel will add to the author’s reputation as one of Canada’s most gifted writers – a peerless delineator of his country’s history and soul.” — Canadian Jewish News “Wiebe continues to do what he does best: capture on a broad canvas many of the epic events in Canadian history . . . . a major work of art. Wiebe provides some of the most evocative prose yet about the Canadian North.” — Maclean’s “Its fascinating events are solidly rooted in history . . . but in Rudy Wiebe’s rendition it becomes a history transmuted by art into a strangely original, intensely personal vision . . . . It is a pleasure of the first order – the pleasure of true art.” — Josef Skvorecky “A circuitously told, poetically charged work that resonates long after the book is closed.” — Edmonton Journal “Magnificent. A love story . . . an adventure story . . . a dramatic tale . . . a winner.” — The Calgary Herald “I was captivated from the very first words – so ironic, so poetic, so true.” — St. John Evening Telegraph “A work of extraordinary originality and beauty . . . every sentence of this novel speaks of his respect and love for the aboriginal way of life.” — The Globe and Mail Informationen zum Autor Rudy Wiebe Klappentext A Discovery of Strangers tells of the meeting of two civilizations - the first encounter of the nomadic Dene people with Europeans - in an imaginative reconstruction of John Franklin's first map-making expedition in 1819—21 in what is now the Northwest Territories. At the heart of the novel is a love story between twenty-two-year-old midshipman Robert Hood, the Franklin expedition's artist, and a fifteen-year-old Yellowknife girl known to the British as Greenstockings. A national bestseller, published also in Germany and China, Wiebe's first novel in eleven years and his twelfth work of fiction won him his second Governor General's Award for Fiction at the age of sixty, over strong competition from Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro. It is a story of love, murder, greed and passion in an unforgiving Arctic landscape. French-Canadian voyageurs paddle the small British expedition into the land of the Yellowknives to search for the fabled Northwest Passage. While this trip would not prove as disastrous as Franklin's third expedition, nevertheless more than half his men did not survive the harsh conditions. The long winter stopover allows for interchange between the cultures. When the son of a Lancashire clergyman and the daughter of a native elder fall in love, they devise a language of their own to cross their wordless divide. Hood will not survive to see the birth of his daughter, perishing in 1821 in an attempt to reach Gree...

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What is remarkable about Wiebe s achievement in [The Temptations of Big Bear and The Scorched-Wood People] and now, in A Discovery of Strangers is that he is able to be, it seems, both Faulkner and Balzac at once. That is, Wiebe can construct scenes of painstaking detail and psychological insight, and combine them or frame them in exciting historical situations . . . . A Discovery of Strangers is vintage Wiebe. Books in Canada

Clash, crash, shock: there are plenty of clichéd verbs of collision to describe encounters between cultures. In A Discovery of Strangers, the meeting of the English and the Yellowknife Indians on whom they rely to guide them through the northlands is seldom so dramatically violent; it is, as the title hints, a gradual discover of strangeness, and all the more affecting for that . . . . A Discovery of Strangers is a triumph of translation: with unflinching understanding and the powers of a very fine storyteller, Rudy Wiebe has once again delivered us our past. Quill & Quire

The author is a master of descriptive prose . . . . This memorable novel will add to the author s reputation as one of Canada s most gifted writers a peerless delineator of his country s history and soul. Canadian Jewish News

Wiebe continues to do what he does best: capture on a broad canvas many of the epic events in Canadian history . . . . a major work of art. Wiebe provides some of the most evocative prose yet about the Canadian North. Maclean s

Its fascinating events are solidly rooted in history . . . but in Rudy Wiebe s rendition it becomes a history transmuted by art into a strangely original, intensely personal vision . . . . It is a pleasure of the first order the pleasure of true art. Josef Skvorecky

A circuitously told, poetically charged work that resonates long after the book is closed. Edmonton Journal

Magnificent. A love story . . . an adventure story . . . a dramatic tale . . . a winner. The Calgary Herald

I was captivated from the very first words so ironic, so poetic, so true. St. John Evening Telegraph

A work of extraordinary originality and beauty . . . every sentence of this novel speaks of his respect and love for the aboriginal way of life. The Globe and Mail

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Rudy Wiebe
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2001
• EAN: 9780394280837
• ISBN: 978-0-394-28083-7
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 202 mm x 25 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi