Yazar: Margaret Laurence

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Hoda, the protagonist of Crackpot, is one of the most captivating characters in Canadian fiction. Graduating from a tumultuous childhood to a life of prostitution, she becomes a legend in her neighbo …

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In The Diviners, Morag Gunn, a middle aged writer who lives in a farmhouse on the Canadian prairie, struggles to understand the loneliness of her eighteen-year-old daughter. With unusual wit and dept …

Above the town, on the hill brow, the stone angel used to stand. I wonder if she stands there yet… Hagar Shipley an irascible, independent nonagenarian has lived a quiet life full of rage. As she a …

‘An almost perfect book’ MARGARET ATWOOD. Whenever I find myself thinking in a brooding way, I must simply turn it off and think of something else. God forbid that I should turn into an eccentric. Ra …

Stacey Cameron, on the cusp of her forties, feels it’s time for a change. Her marriage has worn threadbare and the children no longer need her. Should she have an affair? Take to drink? Or finally co …

Morag Gunn is a writer in her mid-forties who lives in a riverside farm in East Ontario. Her eighteen-year-old daughter is suffering from a profound loneliness that she is struggling to understand, c …

EINE ERZÄHLSTIMME VOLLER WUT UND LEBENDIGKEIT »Will oder kann man aus der kanadischen Literatur des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts nur eine Autorin lesen, so muss es Margaret Laurence sein. Wer es nicht tu …

Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation’s most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writ …

Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation’s most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writ …

Ausgezeichnet mit dem Governor General’s Award 1966, dem wichtigsten Literaturpreis Kanadas Mit einem Nachwort von Margaret Atwood Rachel Camerons Leben ist bestimmt von ihrer Arbeit als Lehrerin und …

Eine Hausfrau mit vier Kindern rebelliert gegen die Routine ihrer Tage ‘Sehr lustig geschrieben … Das ist einfach wunderbar zu lesen. Ein ganz herrlicher Roman. Besser können Sie durch diesen Herbs …

A novel of Africans and British, community and exile, set against the backdrop of the Ghanaian fight for independence: “A talented writer.”—The New York Times   It is a time of …