Charades
by Janette Turner Hospital
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This vibrant, superbly crafted novel explores the elusive boundaries between existence and imagination, memory and truth. From the subtropical lushness of Queensland's Tamborine rainforest to the claustrophobic bedroom of a Boston physicist, Hospital's characters breathe an atmosphere of passion and suspense. Charade Ryan, an enigmatic story-spinning scheherazade, searches for a way to unravel the long-hold secrets of her family origins.Tags
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Janette Turner Hospital is the author of six previous novels, including Oyster and The Last Magician, both of which were New York Times Notable Books of the Year. Her story collections are Isobars and Dislocations, which won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Fiction Award. A two-time finalist for the Australian National Book Award, Hospital is show more the recipient of numerous other honors and has been published in twelve languages. Originally from Australia, she has lived in Canada, the U.K., France, and India, but now holds a permanent position at the University of South Carolina, where she is Professor and Distinguished Writer in Residence show less
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- Canonical title
- Charades
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Charade Ryan; Nicholas; Bea
- Important places
- Australia; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Canada; Massachusetts, USA; Ontario, Canada; Queensland, Australia (show all 7); Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Epigraph
- May the legends of the men of old be lessons to the people of our time, so that a man may see those things which befell others beside himself: then he will honour and consider carefully the words and adventures of past peo... (show all)ples, and will reprove himself.
- THE BOOK OF THE THOUSAND NIGHTS AND ONE NIGHT
To modify the past is not to modify a single fact; it is to annul the consequences of that fact, which tend to be infinite. In other words, it involves the creation of two universal histories.
-Jorge Luis Borges: Th... (show all)e Other Death
I intend to examine here the memories of extreme experiences, of injuries suffered or inflicted....Once again it must be observed, mournfully, that the injury cannot be healed: it extends through time....
-Primo Lev... (show all)i: The Drowned and the Saved
For my part, I have no illusions; what took place can happen again. We are only entitled to respite, a reprieve between two ...
-Testimony of Andre to Claudine Vegh, IN I Didn't Say Goodbye: Interviews with Children... (show all) of the Holocaust - Dedication
- For my father and mother,
who taught me that love is rich and redemptive
whatever costumes and guises it wears - First words
- The grand unified theories,Koenig writes, are difficult to verify experimentally.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But then he thinks of Heisenberg and the indeterminacy question, and wishes to keep the ending open.
- Blurbers
- Weldon, Fay
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- Dutch, English, French
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