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Sto caricando le informazioni... Yasmeen Haddad loves Joanasi Maqaittikdi Carolyn Marie Souaid
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a story of an Syrian-born Montrealer -- 23-year-old Yasmeen Haddad -- who moves to Nunavik (Northern Quebec) to teach Inuit children. Once there, she becomes immersed in life in a remote community, and falls in love with an Inuit man -- Joanasi Maqaittik -- who works at the local radio station. The author has brought us a tale of passion, obsession and pushing the limits of our own boundaries to make a relationship work. And, she has successfully integrated this with the story of the isolation, alcoholism, racism and the threat of loss of culture faced by many Aboriginal/Inuit communities. The story is often violent and the characters are complex -- she captures the psyche of Yasmeen especially well, I thought. This story kept me engaged days after I'd finished reading. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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A 23-year-old woman enters a whole new world of attraction in a community struggling with generations of loss of land and culture. Yasmeen's tradition-bound mother wants her to stay in Montreal, get married, and have babies. But the young Syrian-Canadian wants more. Her appetite for adventure leads her to a teaching job in the northern Quebec village of Saqijuvik. Eager to adopt her new home and its Inuit inhabitants, Yasmeen embraces every experience that comes her way: camping on the tundra, hunting for ptarmigan, sewing with the local ladies. She plunges into her northern adventure, no holds barred. But it's 1983 and instead of the ideal, pristine Arctic Yasmeen imagined, she uncovers a contradictory world of igloos and pool halls, Sedna and Jesus, raw caribou and alcohol. In the middle of everything is Joanasi, a beautiful but volatile man who leads her into territory that is almost as unsettling as the land itself. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)811.54Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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