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Bezig met laden... Sugarmilk Falls (2005)door Ilona Van Mil
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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. I'm struggling to form an opinion on this book. It piqued my curiosity when I started reading and by the end I was hungrily devouring the story. The narrative style was unique, and the author was able to paint a vivid picture of a fictional northern village at a time when Indigenous people's rights were not equal. Clearly she has done her research. It was a non-traditional mystery novel, and while I was eager to get to the end, it left me wishing for more closure. ( ) I'm not sure about this book. I think I enjoyed it. It certainly kept me reading. It's an insular story, and you do get caught up in its world. I find myself irritated with books that leave unanswered questions though, and this was one of them. It seems like a cop-out. There was, at times, too much description which slowed the pace. Generally, though, a pretty good book. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Hidden among the glacial hills and lakes of the Canadian Shield lies Sugarmilk Falls, a close-knit community with the worst of secrets. Everyone, including the aging priest and the town’s sole policeman, who have their own reasons for concealing the facts, remembers a different version of what really happened there over twenty years ago. But secrets cannot stay buried forever. As the thick snow of a winter’s night sets in, the inhabitants gather together, induced by a questioning stranger to talk openly for the first time about the sinister events of the past. Some think that it all began when Grand’mère Osweken, an Ojibwa shaman, lost the maple forests on a gamble during a game of craps. Others contend it goes further back, to the arrival of the schoolteacher Marina Grochowska, a newcomer with a tightly guarded past. Or perhaps it really started years before that when the woodsman Zack Guillem discovered a curious powdery coating over an area of foliage in the bush. Beautifully crafted and darkly compelling, this is a remarkable debut that captures the spirit and repression of a blighted community as it slowly turns in on itself.Sugarmilk Fallshas earned comparisons with David Guterson’sSnow Falling on Cedars, as it similarly takes readers deep inside a community riven by prejudice and by the secrets of the past. From the Hardcover edition. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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