Melodie Winawer
Auteur de The Scribe of Siena
Œuvres de Melodie Winawer
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Winawer, Melodie
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA - Études
- Yale University
University of Pennsylvania
Columbia University - Professions
- physician, scientist, professor
- Organisations
- Columbia University (professor)
- Agent
- Marly Rusoff
Membres
Critiques
Listes
First Novels (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 3
- Membres
- 311
- Popularité
- #75,820
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 21
- ISBN
- 14
This is a creative and engaging story from a period in time I haven't read a lot about. While Winawer handled the writing beautifully, there were a few small things that grated on me. First and most noticeably, the foreshadowing was about as subtle as a brick through a window, and a few plot points felt forced/contrived and therefore unrealistic. I was also irritated by the need to explain to the reader how words were pronounced. (Please do not underestimate the reader's intelligence!) Some plot points were contradictory: for example, Beatrice is purportedly knowledgeable about the Italian language but then is surprised by how a word is pronounced (this was too obviously for the reader's benefit — Italian is such a language that no one with even passing knowledge of it would be surprised by pronunciation). Speaking of language, a native Italian speaker would recognize immediately that Beatrice wasn't a native speaker, not even one "from Lucca." Lastly, and this made me chuckle, I can't help but wonder where an Italian street vendor procured squash in the mid-1300s! I enjoyed this novel more or less via brute force, struggling against the many small irritants throughout.… (plus d'informations)