The Stone Angel
- 319pages
- 12 heures de lecture
Intro -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- About the Author.
Adele Wiseman Livres
Adele Wiseman était une auteure canadienne dont l'œuvre a exploré les profondeurs de l'identité et du déplacement. Ses parents, juifs russes, ont fui l'Ukraine pour échapper aux pogroms, et cette expérience d'exode et de recherche d'un nouveau foyer a probablement influencé ses thèmes littéraires. Wiseman a exploré les complexités de la condition humaine dans ses écrits, souvent à travers des récits qui examinaient les conflits sociaux et culturels. Son approche innovante et sa prose perspicace ont laissé une marque indélébile dans la littérature canadienne.
Hoda is a prostitute, but that is not the most important fact about her. Earthy, bawdy, vulnerable, and big-hearted, she is the daughter of an impoverished Jewish couple who emigrated from Russia to Canada to escape persecution. Growing up in a ghetto of Winnipeg, she experiences cruelty and bigotry early and fights back with humor and anger, which is something to behold as her young body takes on gargantuan proportions. In the neighborhood, she is considered a crackpot and worse. In truth, she is a cracked pot, a flawed human being, but her quest for love, which brings hope out of humiliation, is one of the most memorable in modern fiction. <i>Crackpot</i>, set in the period between two world wars, is Adele Wiseman's comic vision, for all its darkness. Somewhat satirically, the novel touches on puritanical hypocrisy and the inhumanity of institutions, notably the schools and the welfare system. Hoda, caught in a web of relationships beginning with her blind father and humpbacked mother, is its great heartbeat.