The Break: British Book Awards Author of the Year 2022

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I did find this book to be well-written, and I really admire the skill it takes to convincingly wrap words together to form a story that wouldn't let me go.

When they show up the senior officer is quick to dismiss her, as there is no ‘body’, just some blood, and believes that she merely saw some ‘gang violence’. I ja Wam mówię: zapisujecie, bierzcie na weekend, urlop, wakacje, spokojny wieczór i cieszcie się przyjemnością czytania! The Break is set in the North End area of Winnipeg, Manitoba, an area with a large First Nations and Métis population. I felt that Katherena Vermette handled the violence well and is so well written that I didn't feel sensitive towards it at all.In The Break, she renders them sweet, beautiful battlers who love under the most horrific of circumstances. She meticulously reveals the low buzz of racism, the particular difficulties faced by people of mixed race and the pull of one culture over another but her strength lies in her portrayal of women and the bonds between them despite the harshness of their lives . The metas are Canada's indigenous people, and are treated much like our native Americans are treated on the reservations in the United States.

Es geht um starke Frauen ( die weiß Gott stark sein müssen), Männer kommen in diesem Buch nicht gut weg. I almost put it down about 50 pages in as there were so many characters I was having a hard time keeping track. The boy in The Round House has that, too, but the reader feels his mother’s isolation so keenly that it changes the overall experience to my mind. The Break begins with Stella, a woman who witnesses a violent crime from her kitchen window late at night.

Well, they break, emitting a suggestive sound, a crunch that gives us clues of their delicate texture. One of the officers, Tommy Scott, like both the victim and the witness to the crime, is Metis (a person of mixed aboriginal and European ancestry). Die Polizei geht von einer Schlägerei unter Gang-Mitgliedern aus, eine Vergewaltigung sei bei diesem Wetter draußen doch gänzlich unwahrscheinlich. After so much careful crafting, building up of the story, its ending felt very rushed and predictable, leaving me unsatisfied. The characters are well-developed, the prose is often exquisite, and the strong connection to family and place makes it reminiscent of some of Ron Rash’s fine work.

I felt for everyone involved, which is quite an achievement on Vermette’s part in not demonising or caricaturing.

The officers have different opinions on the information they get from Stella - the older assuming it's just gang violence, and the younger sensing that something more vicious has taken place. However, for Amy it’s enough to send her – along with her extended family of gossips, misfits and troublemakers – teetering over the edge.

Winnipeg, North End: Als Stella in jener verschneiten Februarnacht aus dem Fenster schaut, scheint sie zu erstarren: Sie beobachtet die brutale Vergewaltigung und Misshandlung einer jungen Frau.It's supposed to be one last getaway before going their separate ways―a chance to say goodbye to each other, and to the game they've been playing for the past three years.