In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic

Title: In Fond Remembrance of Me: A Memoir of Myth and Uncommon Friendship in the Arctic
Author: Howard Norman
ISBN: 9780312425227
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Near Fine
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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.