Melodie Winawer
Autor(a) de The Scribe of Siena
Obras por Melodie Winawer
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Winawer, Melodie
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educação
- Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University - Ocupações
- physician, scientist, professor
- Organizações
- Columbia University (professor)
- Agente
- Marly Rusoff
Membros
Críticas
Listas
First Novels (1)
Prémios
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Associated Authors
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 3
- Membros
- 311
- Popularidade
- #75,820
- Avaliação
- 3.5
- Críticas
- 21
- ISBN
- 14
This is a creative and engaging story from a period in time I haven't read a lot about. While Winawer handled the writing beautifully, there were a few small things that grated on me. First and most noticeably, the foreshadowing was about as subtle as a brick through a window, and a few plot points felt forced/contrived and therefore unrealistic. I was also irritated by the need to explain to the reader how words were pronounced. (Please do not underestimate the reader's intelligence!) Some plot points were contradictory: for example, Beatrice is purportedly knowledgeable about the Italian language but then is surprised by how a word is pronounced (this was too obviously for the reader's benefit — Italian is such a language that no one with even passing knowledge of it would be surprised by pronunciation). Speaking of language, a native Italian speaker would recognize immediately that Beatrice wasn't a native speaker, not even one "from Lucca." Lastly, and this made me chuckle, I can't help but wonder where an Italian street vendor procured squash in the mid-1300s! I enjoyed this novel more or less via brute force, struggling against the many small irritants throughout.… (mais)