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Lädt ... Odorivon Darcy Tamayose
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Odori is a traditional dance of Okinawa and this book magically employs images from other art forms--movement from dance, colour from painting, sounds from music--to tell the story of a family moving between Okinawa and the prairie of Southern Alberta. Although much of the story involves the horrors of World War II and the use of the beautiful island of Hamahiga in the Okinawan chain as a shield for Japan, the personal stories of courage and love are interwoven through the action. I loved this book. A beautiful read. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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In the spring of 1999, Mai Yoshimoto-Lanier falls into a coma after her husband loses control of the old Ford and drives over a bridge into the Belly River. Eddie dies. But Mai falls into the world of her great-grandmother on the island of Hamahiga somewhere between heaven and earth. Odori is a novel that navigates through the glorious Ryukyuan Kingdom and the Golden Era of the Sho Dynasty, through bloody World War II Okinawa, and over parched prairies of Southern Alberta's Rainmaker Hills -- all the while exposing human sorrows, indignities, idiosyncrasies, failed faiths, splintered spirits, and an island culture so resilient, so embedded it becomes mythical. It tells of Mai's journey into the world of an old kataribe storyteller, the ghost of her great-grandmother, where she hears of Tree Gods, Sky Gods and human lumps of clay - where her mother's poignant war letters tell of sights and sounds that singe a child's soul. In this dream world she has fallen into, Mai allows her basan's tumble of words to fall gently on her ear as she creates painting after painting, sketch after sketch. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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