House on Selkirk Avenue (eBook)

Irena Karafilly (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
Guernica Editions (Verlag)
978-1-77183-231-1 (ISBN)

Infos

It is autumn, 1997 and Kate Thuringer is back in her hometown to help her college-age daughter settle into her new life. A professional photographer, Kate has lived in Western Canada for nearly three decades. Before her marriage, however, she survived a turbulent year in which Quebecois terrorists kidnapped a British diplomat and murdered an innocent politician. The middle-aged Kate is obsessed with the past, particularly with the memory of a poor francophone student with whom she had been involved during the historic October Crisis. Back in Montreal, she is plunged into a mid-life crisis, struggling to reconcile her romantic past and her melancholy present. The House on Selkirk Avenue is a complex novel about obsessive love, family bonds, aging, and the impact of political events on innocent people's lives.

Rezensionen

The novel’s historical dimension — the events of October 1970 play a crucial part — provides an added undercurrent, investing the narrative with a set of loaded questions: What happened to the revolution? Furthermore, what happens to old revolutionaries? Claire Holden Rothman’s My October examined similar ground two years ago, but Karafilly’s angle is different enough that the two books feel like complementary pieces rather than direct competitors.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2017
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• ISBN-10: 1-77183-231-2 / 1771832312
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77183-231-1 / 9781771832311