Patrin, by Theresa Kishkan
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Patrin, by Theresa Kishkan
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Patrin Szkandery, a young woman living in Victoria BC in the 1970s, restores an ancient quilt and travels to Czechoslovakia to trace her Roma history over the unsettling terrain of central Europe in the years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The pieced cloth proves to be both coded map and palimpsest of her extended familys nomadic wandering through Moravia in the first decade of the 20th century. The elegant and beautifully attentive lyric prose of Kishkans earlier work in fiction and memoir is augmented here with masterful pace and plotting. Patrin is a little jewel of a novella, an exquisitely nuanced and moving glimpse into the grand themes of exile and homecoming across continents and generations. Stitched seamlessly it is a suspenseful and historic tale.
Patrin, by Theresa Kishkan- Amazon Sales Rank: #4972510 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 5.75" h x .50" w x .45" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 128 pages
About the Author
Theresa Kishkan is the author of eleven books of poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction, mostly recently Mnemonic: A Book of Trees which was shortlisted for the 2012 Hubert Evans Award for Non-Fiction. Her books have been nominated for many pizes, including the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and the Relit Award. She lives on the Sechelt Peninsula with her husband John Pass.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I Wish I Could Write Like This By PJ Reece When we travel far from home, are we trying to confirm our identity, or change it? Or perhaps destroy it. In the aftermath of reading Theresa Kishkan’s Patrin, I woke in the night thinking of her protagonist and asking myself these questions. It’s a good book that leaves the reader thinking, especially about “who I am.”Patrin promises a journey in the opening pages. The trajectory is set—a trip to ancestral lands. As a reader I’m on board. I know where it’s going, geographically at least. I leapt to the end of the book, as I often do, for clues about what the author is trying to say. And there it was: “It was strange how love came into my life.” Which could have been the story’s opening line. Instead, Kishkan opens by describing an old quilt. The protagonist, Patrin, receives a package containing a quilt that belonged to her grandmother. At the end of the first chapter, she “shakes it out,” meaning that it will live again.The quilt is a character in its own right. As Patrin repairs it, she suspects it contains clues that will help her on the journey she will take to uncover her ancestral past. A journey to encounter the love that will enter her life. I loved it. All 130 pages. I love this book all the more for distilling a novel’s worth of material into the taut and tailored and crisp and smart and poetic novella it is. It’s a true joy to read, though not a quick read; this is a book to savour. And I applaud Kishkan for daring to experiment with an amorphous middle. Only a strong structure will allow a story to jump back and forth as Kishkan does through its ten-year time span.Patrin’s theme is a proven one—we have to travel far from home in order to find our true home. At least that’s the theme I identified early on. It always works for me. I can count on these “road stories” to wake me up in the middle of the night replaying the endings. I find I’m less concerned about whether the protagonist lives or dies—than if she is set free.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. It's beautifully written. Another gem from Canadian author Theresa Kishkan By Robin Ridington This is a poetic novella about a woman who remembers her Roma (Gypsy) grandmother's quilt and through it embarks on a search for her Roma ancestors. It's beautifully written. Another gem from Canadian author Theresa Kishkan.
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