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Sto caricando le informazioni... Deafening (2003)di Frances Itani
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. A puff of air, an aroma or a movement in the corner of her eye - these are the signals that something is happening around her. For Grania (Graw - née - a) is deaf as a result of a bout with scarlet fever when she was a child. Grania has a protective mother (who feels guilty for her daughter's deafness), and a loving grandmother and sister who help her. She is sheltered until she is nine, when it is was apparent that she needed schooling. She is sent to the Ontario School for the Deaf 20 miles away. She thrives there, meets her best friend, Fry, and her love, Jim. When WWI intervenes the lives of everyone, including Grania, are turned upside down. Set in Canada as well as World War I France Deafening is well-researched, with insights into what it might be like to live without sound. The amount of research that went into this novel is obvious from the beginning: Frances Itani is meticulous in trying to accurately portray the smallest details of the lives of her characters. The story is moving - cataloguing the damage caused by the First World War to the lives of the characters and describing the difficulties faced by a deaf person in a hearing world. Una entrañable novela sobre la familia y el amor en tiempos difíciles. Frances Itani ha compuesto una espléndida alegoría en torno a la sordera, en la que la minusvalía física de su protagonista da pie a la sordera metafórica que afecta a todos los que, debido a las duras experiencias de la vida, se van aislando del mundo exterior.A principios del siglo XX, en un pequeño pueblo canadiense , la desgracia cae sobre una familia de origen irlandés cuando la pequeña Grania se queda sorda tras haber enfermado de escarlatina. Agnes, su madre, hace todo lo posible para que su hija reciba una educación normal, pero Grania sólo obtiene muestras de rechazo y crueldad en el colegio. A los nueve años, ingresa en una escuela para sordomudos en Belleville y a la desgracia de estar alejada del su familia se une la del diagnóstico del médico: su sordera es total y definitiva. Años más tarde, y convertida ya en una eficiente enfermera, Grania conoce a Jim, el alegre ayudante del doctor Whalen. Pero cuando Grania se casa y cree que por fin ha alcanzado la felicidad, Jim es llamado a filas para luchar en la Primera Guerra Mundial. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Born on the shores of Lake Ontario, Grania O'Neill suffers a childhood illness that destroys her hearing. Grania's life without sound is also a life bounded by a powerful family love that tries to protect her from suffering. But when it becomes clear that Grania can no longer thrive among the hearing, her family sends her to the Ontario School for the Deaf. There, protected from the often unforgiving world outside, she learns sign language and speech. And there she meets Jim Lloyd, a hearing man, and the two, in wonderment, begin to create a new emotional vocabulary that encompasses both sound and silence. But a war is raging on the other side of the world. Only two weeks after their wedding, Jim must leave home to serve as a stretcher-bearer on the blood-soaked battlefields of Flanders. During this long and brutal war of attrition, Jim and Grania are pulled to the centre of cataclysmic events that will alter civilisation forever. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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I am looking forward to Itani’s next book.
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