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De: Tanya Tagaq

Narrado por: Tanya Tagaq

Longlisted for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the 2019 Amazon First Novel Award
Shortlisted for the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize
Winner of the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Prose in English
Winner of the 2018 Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design – Prose Fiction
Longlisted for the 2019 Sunburst Award

From the internationally acclaimed Inuit throat singer who has dazzled and enthralled the world with music it had never heard before, a fierce, tender, heartbreaking story unlike anything you've ever read.

Fact can be as strange as fiction. It can also be as dark, as violent, as rapturous. In the end, there may be no difference between them.

A girl grows up in Nunavut in the 1970s. She knows joy, and friendship, and parents' love. She knows boredom, and listlessness, and bullying. She knows the tedium of the everyday world, and the raw, amoral power of the ice and sky, the seductive energy of the animal world. She knows the ravages of alcohol, and violence at the hands of those she should be able to trust. She sees the spirits that surround her, and the immense power that dwarfs all of us.

When she becomes pregnant, she must navigate all this.

Veering back and forth between the grittiest features of a small arctic town, the electrifying proximity of the world of animals, and ravishing world of myth, Tanya Tagaq explores a world where the distinctions between good and evil, animal and human, victim and transgressor, real and imagined lose their meaning, but the guiding power of love remains.

Haunting, brooding, exhilarating, and tender all at once, Tagaq moves effortlessly between fiction and memoir, myth and reality, poetry and prose, and conjures a world and a heroine readers will never forget.

Absolutely enchanting

Beautiful written, perfectly told. Spectacular traditional throat singing which set the stage and carried me far north and away where dream and reality mix into an exquisite story. I finished feeling humbled and honored to have shared in something sacred and profound. Thank you.

an Increase telling of a Native Experience

From the Beginning to the End, every moment, every word and every part absolutely Amazing

Unusual, poetic and spiritual

A true song to nature and to what could have been Tagaq's spiritual life. Wild and moving, shocking and soothing. An unusual, emotional roller coaster.

Unique

Rare that a writer can create their own genre but shes done it. Flowing from poem to fiction to non fiction to fantasy is unique to Tanya.

A unique and moving book

This book is filled with difficulties and sadness, joy, mythical connections, and beauty. It is beautifully written and performed and includes many segments of throat singing for which the author is known. I understand that some of this is poetry in here as well as prose so someday I want to see a paper copy of it for the poetry segments.

I'm not sure this book is for everyone, but if you can make a connection to it then it is a worthy read or listen. I'm hoping that she will write more books. I would certainly be willing to go on that journey with her again. I give it a solid 5 stars all around.

The author is also a gifted artist. I'm in awe of her talent