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The Desire of Every Living Thing
Don Gillmor
其他書名
A Memoir
出版Random House of Canada, 2011-08-24
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Canadian StudiesHistory / Canada / Post-Confederation (1867-)
ISBN03073636519780307363657
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=aAiXAKvI_cEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋At the age of eighty, Don Gillmor's grandmother let slip the defining secret of her life: her twin sister Jean was not her twin, but her aunt, and her family had emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg to escape the stigma of her illegitimacy. That revelation set Gillmor off on what seemed at first like the most personal of quests: to track down his ancestors. The Desire of Every Living Thing is also the story of the New World, the story of Winnipeg, the story of this country. Both an evocative family memoir and a brilliant feat of historical imagination, the book's most moving theme is how the discarded past haunts and shapes our lives without us even noticing.