Split Tooth

Split Tooth
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مشارکت: عنوان و توضیح کوتاه هر کتاب را ترجمه کنید این ترجمه بعد از تایید با نام شما در سایت نمایش داده خواهد شد.
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فرمت کتاب

ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2018

نویسنده

Tanya Tagaq

ناشر

Penguin Canada

شابک

9780143198048
  • اطلاعات
  • نقد و بررسی
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نقد و بررسی

Kirkus

August 1, 2018
This debut from acclaimed Inuit throat singer Tagaq (her album "Animism" won the 2014 Polaris Music Prize) is a shamanic coming-of-age journey through a haunted and mystical Arctic landscape.In 1975, a fierce and tomboyish 11-year-old Inuit girl growing up in the northern Canadian territory of Nunavut discovers her shamanic powers at the onset of puberty. Wielding words as sharp as shale rocks and ice, Tagaq narrates the story from the unnamed girl's perspective with poems woven in between prose vignettes. In "The First Time it Happened," the girl describes the experience of falling into a trance, being attacked by a supernatural being, and the sensation of her "spirit self" leaving her body. Despite the threat of possession, she says, "I am not afraid, only curious. I don't feel like prey. I too am a predator." This empowering initiatory experience is the catalyst for a series of bizarre and delicious excursions into the spirit world which occur throughout her teen years. Her astral flights are a reclaiming of her spiritual heritage and the "shaman's way" as well as a means of escape from the drunks at home, school bullies, and the roving hands of her teacher. Her animistic view of the universe helps her cope with these everyday problems in terms of spiritual warfare. Sometimes the narrator's voice shifts to philosophical musings and words of wisdom that may seem far beyond the years of a teenager. When speaking of the rampant alcoholism in her family, she says, "There are evil beings in the room near the ceiling waiting to take over the drunken bodies, Grudges and Frustrations slobbering at the chance to return to human form, to violate, to kill, to fornicate." Finding solace in nature, she sings to the sky, and it is beneath the eerie green glow of the northern lights that she conceives with a mysterious celestial lover and is irrevocably transformed.A raw, powerful voice breathes fresh air into traditional Inuit folklore to create a modern tale of mythological proportions.

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Publisher's Weekly

October 29, 2018
In her debut, Inuit throat singer Tagaq turns from sounds that evoke the North to writing stories that recall the often harsh realities of life in Nunavut in the 1970s. The book combines short fiction and poetry to weave together a coming-of-age story that sometimes reads like an exceptional young girl’s journal. The deceptively simple vignettes mix dreams, myth, and the quotidian occurrences of Nunavut life. Through the nameless teenage girl protagonist, the book covers the impact of the residential school system; the roles of family, ancestors, and elders; high school jockeying for social position; experimentation with drugs and alcohol; and teenage pregnancy. Perhaps the best encapsulation of the twin themes of beauty and danger in the work is the depiction of the land itself: “The land has no manners; you only obey and enjoy what is afforded to you by her greatness.” With lines such as “As peaceful as I wish to be, it certainly feels good to get drunk on violence” and “No one has taught us how to do this, but the ritual is old and living in our bones,” Tagaq’s genre-defying work establishes her as a careful, gifted wordsmith.




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