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The year is 1738. Jacques Lafargue, a wide-eyed young Frenchman, arrives in New France aboard the Saint Michel. But before his Canadian adventure has a chance to begin, he is detained at Quebec harbour by suspicious port officials. Their distrust proves warranted: instead of a young man named Jacques Lafargue their captive turns out to be a young woman named Esther Brandeau, and instead of answers to their questions about who she is and where she came from, they are given tales of castaways raised by apes, of blind lovelorn sailors and merciless pirates, of runaway slaves and kindly desert nomads, and of other curiosities in a limitless world. Few suspect the truth: Esther is a Jew, which by law prohibits her from entering New France, and she is using her tale-telling to escape the restrictions placed upon her race and gender. And no one - not even Esther herself - realizes the power her stories have to open their hearts and minds to old dreams and new possibilities. The Tale-Teller is a marvel. Susan Glickman takes readers on a journey of discovery - starting with the fascinating true story of an obscure historical figure, and continuing through an intimate and richly-detailed portrait of Canadian colonial society, guided always by a map of wonders - to reveal timeless truths. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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A young man travels to the New World aboard a ship where he entrances listener's with his stories and makes himself well-liked by everyone for his interest in their lives and experiences. On his arrival, he is discovered to be a disguised girl, Esther, who is immediately arrested and housed in the home of one of the town officials while an inquiry is made in France. During the year that follows, as her fate continues to be uncertain, she spends time in several homes and for a while in a nunnery, after it is discovered that she is Jewish and will be expelled for that reason alone unless she converts. But this is not why she came to New France, where she was hoping to find a measure of liberation from sexually-determined fate, anti-Jewish hate, and an enforced marriage. Throughout the year she enchants her listeners with her tales, giving many of them hope for themselves and a new perspective on the strictures society has placed on them.
While Esther's fate provides the suspense, her anecdotes, whether real or imagined, are where the real interest lies. There is even some question for the charmed reader about whether she might possibly be telling her own history, as outlandish as it is. The characters are well-drawn but don't enchant the reader nearly as much as those tales Esther weaves. ( )