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Soucouyant

di David Chariandy

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"A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darkness - her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget."--Jacket.… (altro)
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Very well done, the writing, the characters the evolving mystery of the plot leads the reader through the story. ( )
  charlie68 | Mar 19, 2018 |
Excellent novel so far. A good follow up to Just Kids because Chiandry's voice is as tender and careful as Smith's. ( )
  mkunruh | Nov 13, 2016 |
This is the moving story of an unnamed narrator and his Caribbean-born mother, Adele. She recalls her life and early experiences as a visible-minority immigrant in Anglo-Saxon Toronto as well as her girlhood in Trinadad. Touchingly, Adele also suffers from early onset dementia and the retelling of her memories follow a logic of their own. This would be a good choice for fans of Sebastian Barry's The Secret Scripture or Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel.
  vplprl | May 15, 2014 |
This is a short novel about a young man who returns home to Scarborough (Ontario) to care for his mother. His mother suffers from early-onset dementia. His father has died, and his older brother is nowhere to be found. Our young narrator talks about his mother with compassion and perception.

As the book unfolds, we learn the mother's story. She grew up in Trinidad, near a U.S. army base. Her mother worked as a prostitute, and we see the effects this, along with racism and superstitution had on her. We come to see her dementia as, in part, necessary forgetting. There are things we have to leave behind if we are to make our lives work. And the cost of forgetting can be high -- in this case, on the mother's mental health.

Beautiful writing, thought-provoking. ( )
  LynnB | Oct 31, 2013 |
This is a thoughtfully written novel about the struggle between forgetting about trauma and moving on to a new life on one hand, and making the story of your trauma known, on the other. In Soucouyant, this theme is explored within the context of the immigrant, post-colonial experience.

After several years away from home, the unnamed narrator returns to the house where he grew up in Scarborough, Ontario, to care for his mother who is suffering from early onset dementia. Through their fragments of memories, he tries to piece together her early life in the Trinidad. The writing is powerful, and full of symbolism, which makes it a rewarding read for the careful reader. There is a lot going on in this short novel. ( )
1 vota Nickelini | Oct 24, 2012 |
Issues of racism, poverty, and sexual impropriety are all artfully woven throughout the novel, and Chariandy deftly captures the mixed emotions and often brutal day-to-day experiences of caring for loved ones who have lost control of their physical and mental faculties.
aggiunto da Nickelini | modificaQuill & Quire, Dory Cerny (Oct 1, 2007)
 
Chariandy, whose book has been long-listed for this year's Giller Prize, builds his story glancingly. Through poetic repetition, allusion, and suggestion we come to understand the overlapping moments that set his people's feet onto their life path.
 
haunting coming-of-age story.
 
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During our lives, we struggle to forget. And it's foolish to assume that forgetting is altogether a bad thing. Memory is a bruise still tender. History is a rusted pile of blades and manacles. And forgetting can sometimes be the most creative and life-sustaining thing that we can ever hope to accomplish. The problem happens when we become too good at forgetting. When somehow we forget to forget, and we blunder into circumstnaces that we consciously should have avoided. This is how we awaken to the stories buried deep within our sleeping selves or trafficked quietly through the touch of others. This is how we're shaken by vague scents or tastes. How we're stolen by an obscure word, an undertow dragging us back and down and away."
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"A soucouyant is an evil spirit in Caribbean folklore, and a symbol here of the distant and dimly remembered legacies that continue to haunt the Americas. This first novel set in Ontario, in a house near the Scarborough Bluffs, focuses on a Canadian-born son who despairingly abandons his Caribbean-born mother suffering from dementia. The son returns after two years to confront his mother but also a young woman who now mysteriously occupies the house. In his desire to atone for his past and live anew, he is compelled to imagine his mother's life before it all slips into darkness - her arrival in Canada during the early sixties, her childhood in Trinidad during World War II, and her lurking secret that each have tried to forget."--Jacket.

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