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The Rain Ascends
Joy Kogawa
出版
Penguin
, 2016-11-29
主題
Fiction / General
ISBN
0735233896
9780735233898
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Oax7DQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
In Joy Kogawa's masterful third novel, a middle-aged woman discovers that her father, a respected Anglican priest, has long been a sexual abuser of boys. Originally published to critical acclaim in 1995,
The Rain Ascends
has been revisited by the author, with substantive additions to the end of the narrative that bring to fruition the heroine's struggle for forgiveness and redemption.
As a middle-aged mother, Millicent is confronted with the secrets of her father's past as she recalls certain events in her childhood--a childhood that, on the surface, was a blissful one. Disbelief turns to confusion as she faces up to the sins of her father and wrestles with a legacy of lies, silence and her own embattled conscience.
In
The Rain Ascends,
Joy Kogawa beautifully sifts the truth from the past and the sinner from the perceived saint. The result is a sensitive, poetic, yet searing depiction of the wounds left by abuse and the redemption brought by truth.