The Tin Flute
The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for...
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The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love.An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, The Tin Flute won both the Governor General’s Award and the Prix Fémina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983.From the Hardcover edition.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780771098604 (077109860X)
Publish date: October 1st 1989
Publisher: New Canadian Library
Pages no: 389
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
France,
Womens,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
Dickens is well known for his shining his light on the working class of London. But Gabrielle Roy did the same for the working class of Montreal. The drawback with Dickens is that he never bothered or even thought about women; perhaps because she was a woman Roy does. The focus of the story is on th...
Subject to change since I read that as a teenager and it's in my to re-read pile to see that I was probably too young to enjoy it.
Another book for looking at Canadian history through a literary lens.
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