I would have been frustrated beyond belief trying to hold a novel in my head. With the narrative power and writerly grace for which she is celebrated, Frances Itani has crafted a deeply moving, emotionally rich story about the burdens of the past.
I did not have one moment to myself for many many years, so it was just easier for me to work on a short story. I’d had this other whole profession before I started to write, so I had to do all this catch-up. “I was also bringing up babies and working on university courses at night.
In the process she was also moving away from an earlier successful career in nursing education and administration. Earlier in her life she had produced several books, including short-story collections. Her response is typically matter-of-fact. I don’t spend time figuring out how something starts - I just follow it.” Itani has written two superb books about an Ontario community coping with the aftermath of WWI, Deafening (2003) and Tell (2011). Mitchell - so why did a novel take so long to arrive? “I’ve been doing this stuff for a long time. Since then, Itani has moved from strength to strength with such further acclaimed novels as Remembering The Bones, Tell and Requiem.īut she had been writing for years before Deafening - an early mentor was W.O. Deafening, a compelling look at the world of the deaf as well as a harrowing evocation of war’s carnage, was an immediate best-seller, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize and publication in some 20 languages.
Itani is a late starter as a novelist, but her debut in the form had a huge international impact in 2003. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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