It begins with the marriage of Nathan Kramer and one Lily Azerov, a refugee who arrives in Montreal via Palestine in the mid-1940s. A native Montrealer, she elucidates a compassionate, complex vision of her beloved community. Where Your Mouth is Lovely echoed the tones of Tolstoy, Babel and Brontë, the new novel finds Richler confidently inhabiting her own voice. Just what that mother has survived is not expressly articulated the Holocaust is depicted as part of a long, grotesque tradition of anti-Semitic terror. But it is rooted firmly in Montreal, in the point of view of the child of a Holocaust survivor who seeks knowledge of her missing mother. It zigzags through time and space, through Eastern and Western Europe and Palestine, and a harrowing century of family history. The Imposter Bride elaborates Richler's essential themes: Jewish history, maternal absence, female experience and the significance of the word. The hits just kept on coming: Crow Lake, by Mary Lawson Lures, by Sue Goyette Enemy Women, by Paulette Jiles and Nancy Richler's sublime Your Mouth is Lovely, a spellbinding romance of the 1905 Russian Revolution that tells of Mariam, a Jewish activist imprisoned in Siberia.įinally, Richler is back, and with an elegant, ambitious, accomplished new work. The year 2002 stands out in Canada for a sudden flourish of outstanding women's fictions.
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