Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?

De: Anita Rau Badami

Narrado por: Anita Rau Badami

Longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Anita Rau Badami's acclaimed novel Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? chronicles the stories of three women, linked in love and tragedy, over a span of fifty years, sweeping from the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to the explosion of Air India flight 182 off the coast of Ireland in 1985. Alive with Badami's warmth and humanity, and brimming with the daily sights and sounds of both Canada and India, this novel brilliantly conveys the tumultuous effects of the past on new immigrants, and the ways in which memory and myth, the personal and the political, become heartrendingly connected.

©2007 Anita Rau Badami (P)2020 Vintage Canada

Reseñas de la Crítica

2007, City of Vancouver Book Award, Short-listed

2007, OLA Evergreen Award, Short-listed

2008, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Long-listed

"Like Canada, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? may be read on many levels, each of which illuminates a little more of who we are. . . . Rich in echoes and irony and questions, this is one book in the growing catalogue of books we need to read to understand ourselves." (The Globe and Mail)

"As Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? shows, the enduring state of ‘in-between’ that is part of both immigrant life in Canada and Sikh life in post-partition India is equally rich in the complex joy of struggle and the possibility for tension, misunderstanding, and, sometimes, violence." (Calgary Herald)

Really good book

Very well written book. I wish the ending could have been a bit more polished after such a great book that’s why I gave it 4 stars but I really enjoyed this book and the author