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"This haunting work may be the best piece of theater this
country has produced this millennium."--"The Globe and Mail"
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Anima (Paperback)
Wajdi Mouawad; Translated by Linda Gaboriau
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A novel of grotesque realism following Rabelais.Unique narration
seen through the eyes (and told in the voices) of some 70 animals,
birds, and insects who observe the protagonist as he travels the
continent.The novel reads like a road movie, a thriller, as the
protagonist, Waahch Debch, travels from Montreal across the U.S.
border (stopping at Indian reservations in Quebec and Ontario along
the way), through the Mid-West to New Mexico. He is on the trail of
his wife's murderer, a Mohawk named Welson Wolf Rooney. The murder
was violent beyond words. The violence of her death (and that of
another woman murdered by the same man on the Kahnawake
reservation) triggers a fault line in Waahch's memory and the
ensuing events force him to pursue "the excavation of his memory."
This excavation leads to a tale of almost biblical vengeance rooted
in historical "tribal" traditions of honor. (Reminiscent of Joseph
Boyden's The Orenda but set in a very different time and place.)
The protagonist Wahhch grew up in Lebanon during the civil war of
the 1980s, where a brutal childhood episode forever changed his
life.Topicality: the painful legacy of the politics of the Middle
East and the "Palestinian question."
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