In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
176 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 2005
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ISBN: 9780312425227
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Picador
Publication date: 24 January 2006
Description
In the fall of 1977, Howard Norman went to Churchill, Manitoba, to translate Inuit folktales, and there he met Helen Tanizaki, an extraordinary linguist translating the same tales into Japanese. In Fond Remembrance of Me recaptures their intimacy, and the remarkable influence that she, and the tales themselves, would have on the future novelist. Through a series of overlapping panels of reality and memory, Norman evokes with vivid immediacy their brief but life-shifting encounter, and the earthy, robust Inuit folklore that occasioned it.
