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In fond remembrance of me
- Title
- In fond remembrance of me / Howard Norman.
- Author
- Norman, Howard A.
- Publication
- New York : North Point Press, 2005.
- Supplementary Content
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | GR55.T26 N67 2005 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 166 pages; 21 cm
- Summary
- "Howard Norman spent the fall of 1977 in Churchill, Manitoba, translating into English the "Noah stories" told to him by an Inuit elder. The folktales reveal what happened when the biblical Noah lost his way in the Arctic waters of Hudson Bay. By turns startling, tragic, and comical, these inimitable narratives tell the history of the Arctic and capture the collision of cultures precipitated by the arrival of a hapless stranger in a strange land." "Norman himself was then a stranger, but he was not alone. In Churchill he encountered Helen Tanizaki, an Anglo-Japanese woman embarked on a similar project - to translate the tales into Japanese. An extraordinary linguist and an exacting and compelling friend, Tanizaki became Norman's guide through the characters, stories, and customs he was coming to know, and a remarkable intimacy sprang up between them - made all the more intense because it was to be fleeting; Tanizaki was fatally ill."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0865476802 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2004056097
- OCLC
- ocm56011423
- SCSB-5161108
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries