Melodie Winawer
Auteur van The Scribe of Siena
Werken van Melodie Winawer
Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Gangbare naam
- Winawer, Melodie
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA - Opleiding
- Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University - Beroepen
- physician, scientist, professor
- Organisaties
- Columbia University (professor)
- Agent
- Marly Rusoff
Leden
Besprekingen
Lijsten
First Novels (1)
Prijzen
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 3
- Leden
- 307
- Populariteit
- #76,700
- Waardering
- 3.5
- Besprekingen
- 21
- ISBNs
- 14
This is a creative and engaging story from a period in time I haven't read a lot about. While Winawer handled the writing beautifully, there were a few small things that grated on me. First and most noticeably, the foreshadowing was about as subtle as a brick through a window, and a few plot points felt forced/contrived and therefore unrealistic. I was also irritated by the need to explain to the reader how words were pronounced. (Please do not underestimate the reader's intelligence!) Some plot points were contradictory: for example, Beatrice is purportedly knowledgeable about the Italian language but then is surprised by how a word is pronounced (this was too obviously for the reader's benefit — Italian is such a language that no one with even passing knowledge of it would be surprised by pronunciation). Speaking of language, a native Italian speaker would recognize immediately that Beatrice wasn't a native speaker, not even one "from Lucca." Lastly, and this made me chuckle, I can't help but wonder where an Italian street vendor procured squash in the mid-1300s! I enjoyed this novel more or less via brute force, struggling against the many small irritants throughout.… (meer)