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The White Bone de Barbara Gowdy
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The White Bone (1998 original; edició 2000)

de Barbara Gowdy (Autor)

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A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage. In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory."… (més)
Membre:Juan-banjo
Títol:The White Bone
Autors:Barbara Gowdy (Autor)
Informació:Flamingo (2000), 352 pages
Col·leccions:Book's Read
Valoració:****
Etiquetes:Fiction, Canadian Author, Africa, animals, anthropomorphic, Canada, elephant, s, family, fantasy, poaching, survival, elephant perspective, drought, ivory, inter-relationship

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The White Bone de Barbara Gowdy (1998)

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The story, overall, was very sad. I kept hoping that all the anguish of sticking with the reading of the book would be rewarded at the end by some happiness, but the author was very stingy and kept it all to herself. I was very disappointed. There is no climax, no conclusion. She could have given us readers that much....... ( )
  37143Birnbaum | Jan 19, 2024 |
really depressing book about the evil poaching of wild African elephants during a drought, from the elephants' perspective. ( )
  JBarringer | Dec 15, 2023 |
The book was very imaginative and obviously well-researched. However, I couldn't relate to the characters and had trouble even remembering who was who. The best part was the writing about memory: "If you live long enough, your memory leaks right out of you." ( )
  LynnB | Oct 24, 2020 |
Beautiful language. The idea of people hunting elephants is appalling. After reading this book, I trust everyone will find it even more horrifying. Imaginative. Brilliant. Lovely. ( )
  DonnaMarieMerritt | Dec 15, 2019 |
Globe and Mail Book Club selection for May 2019, chosen by Margaret Atwood ( )
  bhowell | May 8, 2019 |
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Barbara Gowdys Roman überzeugt durch gute Recherche und die phantasievolle Ausgestaltung des Zusammenlebens afrikanischer Elefanten. Man wird unweigerlich in die sonderbare Welt der Dickhäuter versetzt und erfährt zugleich mehr über seine eigene Welt. Die Geschichte ist traurig, ungewöhnlich und spannend zugleich. Ein faszinierendes Buch - nicht nur für Elefantenfreunde!
 
... Gowdy has created a landscape, a cosmology, and a community that are wholly surprising and believable. The White Bone is a singular and remarkable novel.
 
The novel is a tour de force.
afegit per GYKM | editaTimes Literary Supplement
 
The White Bone is a spectacular achievement.
afegit per GYKM | editaChicago Tribune
 
Comic, apocalyptic, faintly hopeful, The White Bone succeeds as a brave and captivating act of imagination.
afegit per GYKM | editaThe Globe and Mail
 

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Nom de l'autorCàrrecTipus d'autorObra?Estat
Gowdy, Barbaraautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Becker, UlrikeTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Jamarillo, RaquelAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Varrelmann, ClausTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat

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Yet in the alert, warm animal there lies the pain and burden of an enormous sadness. For it too feels the presence of what often overwhelms us: a memory, as if the element we keep pressing toward was once more intimate, more true, and our communion infinitely tender.--from The Eighth Elegy, Duino Elegies, Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Stephen Mitchell
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For Chris Kirkwood and Rob Kirkwood and in memory of my father, Robert Gowdy
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If they live long enough they forget everything. (prologue)
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Thirty years of aligning his every move to what he believed was a world trembling with mystic revelation (p. 145)
The earth tilts to meet their footfalls (p. 216)
At the end of a long life you forget everything except who you are. But who is that? ...Now her hunch is that you are the sum of those incidents only you can testify to, whose existence, without you, would have no earthly acknowledgement. (271)
By what misguided arrangement were she-ones made swollen with memory rather than sleek with appetite? (p 320)
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A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined entirely from the perspective of African elephants, Barbara Gowdy creates a world whole and separate that yet illuminates our own. For years, young Mud and her family have roamed the high grasses, swamps, and deserts of the sub-Sahara. Now the earth is scorched by drought, and the mutilated bodies of family and friends lie scattered on the ground, shot down by ivory hunters. Nothing-not the once familiar terrain, or the age-old rhythms of life, or even memory itself-seems reliable anymore. Yet a slim prophecy of hope is passed on from water hole to water hole: the sacred white bone of legend will point the elephants toward the Safe Place. And so begins a quest through Africa's vast and perilous plains-until at last the survivors face a decisive trial of loyalty and courage. In The White Bone, Barbara Gowdy performs a feat of imagination virtually unparalleled in modern fiction. Plunged into an alien landscape, we orient ourselves in elephant time, elephant space, elephant consciousness and begin to feel, as Gowdy puts it, "what it would be like to be that big and gentle, to be that imperiled, and to have that prodigious memory."

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