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Cargando... Sangre de mi sangre (1999)por Alistair MacLeod
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. En 1779, Calum McDonald dejó su tierra natal escocesa para embarcarse en un duro viaje a través del océano. Partió como esposo y padre, y llegó convertido en viudo y abuelo. En las costas salvajes del Canadá, "la tierra de los árboles", su familia se asentó y prosperó a pesar de las dificultades, conservando su espíritu de clan, su orgullo y su historia común. Alistair MacLeod rinde en esta novela un emotivo homenaje de las tierras y las gentes del Canadá que conoció en su niñez y juventud, con una historia de amor, lealtad y lazos familiares. ( )
"Remarkable. ...[MacLeod's] writing, graceful and elegiac, has the resonance of Steinbeck." "With...No Great Mischief...American readers...have before them...a new land that their imaginations can seize like a manifest destiny." "A gorgeously worded...novel by an acknowledged master of the short story." He does not take readers to as many different places and psyches as his country's very best writer, Alice Munro, but he indelibly renders a Cape Breton we are never likely to visit -- a terrain where the ''dog days'' are the coldest, not the muggiest, and where the ocean wind has forced enough sand into the trees that ''when the saw passed through them in the early darkness of the fall and winter evenings, streaks of blue and orange flame shot from them.'' PremiosListas de sobresalientes
In 1779, driven out of his home, Calum MacDonald sets sail from the Scottish Highlands with his extensive family. After a long, terrible journey he settles his family in 'the land of trees', and eventually they become a separate Nova Scotian clan- red-haired and black-eyed, with its own identity, its own history.It is the 1980s by the time our narrator, Alexander MacDonald, tells the story of his family, a thrilling and passionate story that intersects with history- with Culloden, where the clans died, and with the 1759 battle at Quebec that was won when General Wolfe sent in the fierce Highlanders because it was 'no great mischief if they fall'. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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