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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Again, Cooper blew me away. This was my second time reading this one, and it gave me a beautiful aching feeling. It's hard to describe. I'm not a crier, but I cried two times while reading this. First, when hungry run-away slaves insisted on overeating despite the prospect of suffering stomach aches since they hadn't eaten a decent, warm meal in five years. In fact, I both laughed and cried at that. I laughed b/c Cooper has mastered the art of what is almost impossible: successfully invoking a little humor in the most dire of predicaments. And I cried again when a character with a slavery-related physical deformity experienced love and intimacy for the first time ever - in old age. Really touching. There is so much that is right about this novel: the dialect, cadence, lyricism, story line, characters. It's literary perfection, and it's profound subject matter. ( ) A group of former slaves come together as family, striving to live as free people in a post-civil war world. Mor, Lifee and their adopted relatives want to live free in peace. Doing this meant staying one step ahead of the whites, who felt former slaves didn't deserve anything but poverty and servitude. As I read this novel I was bracing myself for the moment when all they worked for would be taken away by the whites. Buying property, attempting to leave town, or having a prosperous farm brought unwanted attention from bitter whites. Mor and family were hard workers who used their skills to live well off the land. Instead of focusing on the violence of the post-civil war world, Cooper depicted a peaceful, loving family who simply wanted to be left alone to love each other and give their children the opportunities they were denied as slaves. What the author does is show how former slaves were able to develop loving relationships and families despite a world that refused to accept them as human beings. [Written in November 2001] Finally finished 'The Wake of the Wind' by J. California Cooper. One concept that touched home with me was with the sons of Mor and Lifee. They went away, bought property, returned to get their parents and take them there. I have an account of my great-grandfather, James Jeter, doing the same for his parents. This was made apparent in his mother's, Emma Jeter, obituary. So, this book resonates with my Ancestor's possible trials and tribulations - and gives me clues to what they might have done and why. Two thumbs up! Peace, "Guided by the Ancestors" http://geder.wordpress.com inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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A dramatic and thought-provoking novel of one family's triumph in the face of the hardships and challenges of the post-Civil War South. The Wake of the Wind, J. California Cooper's third novel, is her most penetrating look yet at the challenges that generations of African Americans have had to overcome in order to carve out a home for themselves and their families. Set in Texas in the waning years of the Civil War, the novel tells the dramatic story of a remarkable heroine, Lifee, and her husband, Mor. When Emancipation finally comes to Texas, Mor, Lifee, and the extended family they create from other slaves who are also looking for a home and a future, set out in search of a piece of land they can call their own. In the face of constant threats, they manage not only to survive but to succeed--their crops grow, their children thrive, they educate themselves and others. Lifee and Mor pass their intelligence, determination, and talents along to their children, the next generation to surge forward. At once tragic and triumphant, this is an epic story that captures with extraordinary authenticity the most important struggle of the last hundred years. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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