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Bezig met laden... Cloud of Bone (2007)door Bernice Morgan
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Bernice Morgan's first novel, Random Passage, is one of the best books I've ever read. This novel, Cloud of Bone, is also a story of Newfoundland and its people. It tells three related stories: Kyle Holloway, a World War 2 deserter who enters an underground tunnel where he waits to die. It is also the story of Shanawdithit, the last of the Beothuk indians, and of Judith Muir who is an archaeologist whose husband is killed in Rwanda in l998. Each of these stories is interesting and draws you into them, especially the first two. By the time Judith is introduced, I found myself more wondering how her tale would be woven into the the other two than engrossed by her story in itself. And I guess that's my one criticism of this book: things wrap up a little too tightly at the end. Everything comes together, as it did in Ms. Morgan's second novel, Waiting for Time. This detracts only a little bit from the fine writing and fascinating stories of Newfoundland. I do miss, however, the way Random Passage (like life) left some characters unsettled -- and had me, literally, jump out of my seat. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From the bestselling author of Random Passage and Waiting for Time comes this masterful, engrossing story of the last surviving Beothuk, a World War II deserter and a recently widowed English woman at the end of the twentieth century. During World War II, well into the Battle of the North Atlantic, Newfoundlander Kyle Holloway deserts from the Royal Navy. Now, hidden in a cave below St. Mary’s Church, the war-haunted young man remembers years of carefree friendship and petty crime in the narrow streets of St. John’s. Starving, disoriented and tormented by his own act of betrayal, Kyle hears a low, persistent murmuring, retelling a story of distant, far-reaching betrayals. Over a century earlier, Shanawdithit, a young Beothuk girl, spends her childhood in a place she thinks of as the safe centre of the world. As she grows into young womanhood, listening to stories, sharing secrets with friends and falling in love, she slowly becomes aware that Dogmen are taking over her world. Each season, her people are forced farther inland, away from their own hunting grounds, back from the rich seal beaches. Now the only witness that the Beothuk once walked the earth, Shanawdithit is forced to endlessly repeat the story of her doomed people. In 1998, Judith and Ian Muir are in Rwanda as part of the United Nations team investigating a genocide site. A shot rings out and Ian falls dead. Overwhelmed with grief, his widow returns to England and the abandoned cottage where she grew up. There, an unusual discovery takes Judith on a quest that will inextricably connect her life to the lives of Shanawdithit and Kyle Holloway. In Cloud of Bone, three stories come together to make both an intriguing mystery and a meditation on lost innocence, brutality and the power of memory. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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The first part which deals with the young sailor who has jumped ship because he killed his best friend was more difficult to get into. His connection to Sathawadithit is that he hears her voice in the cavern he chooses to hide out in as he hopes to die from starvation.
The third voice wraps everything up and there is quite a close connection to Sathawadithit but to explain would be a spoiler. Suffice it to say that even from the grave Sathawadithit manages to help her recover from the violent death of her husband.
Highly recommended. ( )