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Empire of Wild: A Novel por Cherie Dimaline
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Empire of Wild: A Novel (edição 2020)

por Cherie Dimaline (Autor)

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"Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!"--Margaret Atwood, From Instagram "Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive--all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it."--Tommy Orange, author of There There A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou--a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people's communities. Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year--ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways . . . until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan. One morning, grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears a shocking sound coming from inside a revival tent in a gritty Walmart parking lot. It is the unmistakable voice of Victor. Drawn inside, she sees him. He has the same face, the same eyes, the same hands, though his hair is much shorter and he's wearing a suit. But he doesn't seem to recognize Joan at all. He insists his name is Eugene Wolff, and that he is a reverend whose mission is to spread the word of Jesus and grow His flock. Yet Joan suspects there is something dark and terrifying within this charismatic preacher who professes to be a man of God . . . something old and very dangerous. Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly foul-mouthed card shark who is one of the few among her community steeped in the traditions of her people and knowledgeable about their ancient enemies. With the help of the old Métis and her peculiar Johnny-Cash-loving, twelve-year-old nephew Zeus, Joan must find a way to uncover the truth and remind Reverend Wolff who he really is . . . if he really is. Her life, and those of everyone she loves, depends upon it.… (mais)
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Título:Empire of Wild: A Novel
Autores:Cherie Dimaline (Autor)
Informação:William Morrow (2020), 320 pages
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This was an interesting story. I like that Cherie Dimaline incorporates Indigenous folk tales into the story. ( )
  Shauna_Morrison | Mar 30, 2024 |
Reason Read: ROOT since 7/17/20 when received in Indiespensable box (I miss them). Also read for TIOLI blurber Margaret Atwood.
This is a story set in Canada, Ontario in the area of Lake Huron and the Georgian Bay. Arcand is a fictional town but made for a nice first chapter heading with JOAN OF ARCAND. "The town of Arcand was a church, a school, a convenience store, a bootlegger and a crowed of stooped houses leaning like old men trying to hear a conversation over a graveyard of Greniers and Trudeaus. The book is written by Cherie Dimaline, author of the YA novel The Marrow Thieves. She is an Indigenous writer from the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario. This is a work of speculative fiction, horror and also mythological creature called the Rogarou (from the French). The rogarou is a wolf/man creature. Joan, a metis woman, loses her husband after a verbal spat. Joan searches for her husband eventually fining a man that looks like her husband, called the Reverend Eugene Wolff, but he doesn't know her. He is a traveling preacher hired by Thomas Heizer. Thomas Heizer is using Christianity as a way of influencing the First Nation people to sign agreements with the mining company. This is suppose to represent colonialism. Warning to readers, there is some violence and a small section but a significantly horrible incident of cruelty to a small gerbil. In addition this book is full of cussing and sexual content. In general, this all fits the story. ( )
  Kristelh | Aug 11, 2023 |
3.5 rounded up to 4 stars. An enjoyable thriller. ( )
  xaverie | Apr 3, 2023 |
De Canadese schrijfster Cherie Dimaline komt - net als de hoofdpersoon van Empire of Wild - uit de bevolkingsgroep van de Métis. Een bevolkingsgroep waar ik nog nooit van gehoord had, maar die toch bestaat uit ruim 600.000 mensen in Canada alleen al. De Métis zijn halverwege de 18e eeuw ontstaan uit een vermenging van oorspronkelijke bewoners uit het gebied rondom de grote meren in Noord Amerika en Europese, met name Franse handelaren en kolonisten. Zij hebben een eigen taal, een vermenging van Noord Amerikaanse talen en het Frans, en een eigen cultuur.

Hoewel de groep in Canada officieel erkend wordt als oorspronkelijke bevolkingsgroep en daardoor ook speciale rechten heeft is hun leven er toch niet zo heel erg rooskleurig, dat blijkt wel uit het werk van Cherie Dimaline. Zij debuteerde in 2017 met de science fiction/Young Adult roman The Marrow Thieves (niet in het Nederlands vertaald) dat bijna een jaar in de Canadese bestsellerlijsten heeft gestaan. Empire of Wild is haar eerste roman voor volwassenen en draait om Joan, een Métis-vrouw van halverwege de dertig wiens man spoorloos is verdwenen.

In het begin krijgt Joan alle steun en hulp van haar familie, maar dat begint na bijna een jaar om te slaan in ongeduld. Haar familie laat haar op steeds minder subtiele wijze weten dat ze maar moet accepteren dat haar man haar verlaten heeft. Dit is ook het moment waarop het boek begint. Dan ineens ziet Joan haar man. Tenminste, dat denkt ze, maar was hij het wel echt? Want de man die zij bij toeval tegenkwam leek dan wel sprekend op haar man, maar heeft een andere naam, is dominee en herkent haar niet. Hoe dit allemaal precies zit ontdek je in de loop van het boek, en ga ik hier niet verklappen.

Het interessante aan dit boek is dat je kennismaakt met de Métis en hun mythologie, en dat Dimaline verschillende genres met elkaar vermengt (fantasy, thriller en romance). Tegelijk valt er ook wel wat op aan te merken. Bijvoorbeeld dat je als lezer wel erg bij de hand door het verhaal heen wordt meegenomen. En dat Dimaline - op het einde van het boek na! - heel weinig aan de verbeelding van de lezer overlaat. Dat komt vooral doordat zij behoorlijk wat vertellers gebruikt in het verhaal, waaronder de ‘slechterik’. Daardoor begrijp je als lezer al veel te snel hoe de vork in de steel zit, veel eerder dan Joan zelf. Ook de strakke verdeling bad guys/good guys is nogal zwart/wit te noemen en had wat mij betreft wel wat genuanceerder gemogen.

Kortom, interessant om te lezen, maar had iets spannender gemogen. Het enigszins open einde laat gelukkig veel over aan de verbeelding van de lezer, waardoor het toch in je gedachten blijft doorsudderen. ( )
  Tinwara | Oct 20, 2022 |
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"Deftly written, gripping and informative. Empire of Wild is a rip-roaring read!"--Margaret Atwood, From Instagram "Empire of Wild is doing everything I love in a contemporary novel and more. It is tough, funny, beautiful, honest and propulsive--all the while telling a story that needs to be told by a person who needs to be telling it."--Tommy Orange, author of There There A bold and brilliant new indigenous voice in contemporary literature makes her American debut with this kinetic, imaginative, and sensuous fable inspired by the traditional Canadian Métis legend of the Rogarou--a werewolf-like creature that haunts the roads and woods of native people's communities. Joan has been searching for her missing husband, Victor, for nearly a year--ever since that terrible night they'd had their first serious argument hours before he mysteriously vanished. Her Métis family has lived in their tightly knit rural community for generations, but no one keeps the old ways . . . until they have to. That moment has arrived for Joan. One morning, grieving and severely hungover, Joan hears a shocking sound coming from inside a revival tent in a gritty Walmart parking lot. It is the unmistakable voice of Victor. Drawn inside, she sees him. He has the same face, the same eyes, the same hands, though his hair is much shorter and he's wearing a suit. But he doesn't seem to recognize Joan at all. He insists his name is Eugene Wolff, and that he is a reverend whose mission is to spread the word of Jesus and grow His flock. Yet Joan suspects there is something dark and terrifying within this charismatic preacher who professes to be a man of God . . . something old and very dangerous. Joan turns to Ajean, an elderly foul-mouthed card shark who is one of the few among her community steeped in the traditions of her people and knowledgeable about their ancient enemies. With the help of the old Métis and her peculiar Johnny-Cash-loving, twelve-year-old nephew Zeus, Joan must find a way to uncover the truth and remind Reverend Wolff who he really is . . . if he really is. Her life, and those of everyone she loves, depends upon it.

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