Although I had picked up the author's works throughout the years, it was Eleanor Wachtel's interview with Cees Nooteboom that firmly nudged his Rituals onto my reading list for Iris' DutchLit Fortnight this year. (The interview is available in podcast here.) 1980; HBJ, Translated Adrienne Dixon, 1983 Rituals
Last week, I said that "Carried Away" feels like a quintessential Munro story to me. 1994; Penguin, 2007 Its southwestern Ontario setting. The matters of class. An up-close examination of a blatant tragedy. Some far-away ruminating on trauma of a quieter sort. A woman looking back on a
Oh, the trees! If you, like me, grew up with Anne and Emily naming and loving trees in L.M. Montgomery's novels, you will love Hilary Scharper's novel Perdita. Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, 2013 There are many other reasons to respond to this story: a love of history,
1971; Heinemann, 1995 Officially joining Kinna in A Celebration of Bessie Head July 6 - 12, 2013? ImageNations and Mary Okeke Reviews. And, unofficially, plenty more readers. Readers meet Maru in the novel's opening pages, but I love this description which comes later: "He was a man who talked and walked slowly, with
Could be that "Carried Away" is my favourite Alice Munro story. 1994; Penguin, 1999 Not only because Louisa is a librarian. (But that certainly helps.) "The Librarian’s desk was in the archway between the front and back rooms. The books were on shelves set in rows in the
