The Imposter Bride
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When a young, enigmatic woman arrives in post-war Montreal, it is immediately clear that she is not who she claims to be. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov shatters as she disappears, leaving a new husband and baby daughter, and a host of unanswered questions. Who is she really and what
… More »When a young, enigmatic woman arrives in post-war Montreal, it is immediately clear that she is not who she claims to be. Her attempt to live out her life as Lily Azerov shatters as she disappears, leaving a new husband and baby daughter, and a host of unanswered questions. Who is she really and what happened to the young woman whose identity she has stolen? It is left to the daughter she abandoned to find the answers to these questions as she searches for the mother she may never find or really know.
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Add a CommentMeh... For a Giller prize finalist I was VERY disappointed.
I'm very much enjoying this book (after being tipped off by a positive New York Times Review). It is indeed lovingly written, and (while sometimes a bit awkward in the transition, at least, for this reader), does a great job of moving between the separate but connected stories of the young Russian/Jewish post-WWII wife, and the baby she left behind. The mysteries - why the bride is an imposter, and why she left her adoring husband & new baby - are heartbreakingly plausible. This adds nicely to the 2nd generation Holocaust -survivor fiction in Canada. A very solid read; will be sorry to leave the characters behind.
original and moving...worth the read.
Quite an interesting story. I finished it in just a few days. I'm not sure that all of the ends quite tied up or that the denouement entirely made sense; there seemed to be a lot of extraneous characters/details. Also, because the story takes place over 3 generations, you never really get to know most of the characters. However, I like that the book forced me to engage with and explore human nature, our thoughts and emotional reactions, and kept something happening on every page. By giving all sorts of details that don't "fit" in the story, the author may simply be trying to make the protagonists' lives realistic -- nobody's life fits in the neat, topically focused packages required for novels. A bit of unnecessary language.
What would you do when you lost all and were running to survive with the enemy hot on your tail? Now in a new land and to be married to man who leaves his bride at the train station. Follow Lily (or who she is pretending to be) and her daughter's life journey to find themselves and how they deal with the lies in their lives. Intriguing read.
This is definitely not a page-turner, but it is a very thought-provoking and touching character-driven novel about our need to know where we come from.
At first, it was quite interesting, the more I read, the more boring it became. I haven't finish the book, read maybe abot 2/3. It seemed that the writer was trying to fill up the pages with something, which led to nowhere. Definitely not recommended, especially with such a long waiting list.
Yet another novel based on the longer term effects of the Holocaust and WW 2 - haunting.....and very evocative of 1950's Montreal.
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