The Knowing
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- 15,99 €
Publisher Description
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER | SHORTLISTED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD | FINALIST FOR THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING | SHORTLISTED FOR THE RODERICK HAIG-BROWN REGIONAL PRIZE | WINNER OF THE CRIME WRITERS’ OF CANADA BRASS KNUCKLES AWARD | SHORTLISTED FOR THE INDIGENOUS VOICES AWARDS
From Tanya Talaga, the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Seven Fallen Feathers, comes a riveting exploration of her family’s story and a retelling of the history of the country we now call Canada
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, “Indian hospitals” and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada’s greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment.
The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great-grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.
Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This arresting autobiographical story reveals the lives of Indigenous Canadians who vanished from their homes into residential schools, hospitals, sanatoriums, and other racist state institutions. Journalist Tanya Talaga recounts the history of Canada’s brutal residential school system through the lens of her family history, attempting to piece together the life of her grandmother, from her abduction in central Canada to her death in a brutal Toronto asylum and anonymous burial. A magnificently intimate chronicle, the book stitches together First Nations folklore, Talaga’s family story, and raw historical facts about Canada’s vicious past into an incredibly beautiful and tragic read. Talaga’s deeply personal approach gives her room to eloquently ponder the large-scale traumatic impact of these mass forced separations, as people like her grandmother were routinely sent to unfamiliar lands thousands of kilometres from home. If you want to understand Canadian First Nations history from those who directly lived it, you won’t regret picking up The Knowing.
