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The Beauty of Humanity Movement by Camilla Gibb
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Camilla Gibb
21 books303 followersFrom the author's web site:
"Camilla Gibb, born in 1968, is the author of three novels, Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life and Sweetness in the Belly, as well as numerous short stories, articles and reviews.
She was the winner of the Trillium Book Award in 2006, a Scotiabank Giller Prize short list nominee in 2005, winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000 and the recipient of the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction in 2001. Her books have been published in 18 countries and translated into 14 languages and she was named by the jury of the prestigious Orange Prize as one of 21 writers to watch in the new century.
Camilla was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She has a B.A. in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, completed her Ph.D. in social anthropology at Oxford University in 1997, and spent two years at the University of Toronto as a post-doctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer.
Camilla has been writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto where, for the past two years, she served as an adjunct faculty member of the English Department's MA in Creative Writing Program.
She is currently working on a new novel and divides her time between Toronto and London, England."
"Camilla Gibb, born in 1968, is the author of three novels, Mouthing the Words, The Petty Details of So-and-so's Life and Sweetness in the Belly, as well as numerous short stories, articles and reviews.
She was the winner of the Trillium Book Award in 2006, a Scotiabank Giller Prize short list nominee in 2005, winner of the City of Toronto Book Award in 2000 and the recipient of the CBC Canadian Literary Award for short fiction in 2001. Her books have been published in 18 countries and translated into 14 languages and she was named by the jury of the prestigious Orange Prize as one of 21 writers to watch in the new century.
Camilla was born in London, England, and grew up in Toronto, Canada. She has a B.A. in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies from the University of Toronto, completed her Ph.D. in social anthropology at Oxford University in 1997, and spent two years at the University of Toronto as a post-doctoral research fellow before becoming a full-time writer.
Camilla has been writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta and the University of Toronto where, for the past two years, she served as an adjunct faculty member of the English Department's MA in Creative Writing Program.
She is currently working on a new novel and divides her time between Toronto and London, England."
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January 24, 2025
This is a wonderful book, set in Hanoi, a city I have visited, and like much more now that I’ve read this.
The characterisation is superb. The reader feels we know these people, each generation reflecting the different values of a tortured Vietnam. The old man’s story is revealed little by little, starting in the present when he’s and endearing street Pho maker and seller who is endlessly moved along. We gradually go back into his past , where so much history and pain is gently revealed by the author. The characters surrounding him are equally as artistically portrayed.
For a book that reveals so much of the cruelty and horror of Vietnam’s past, the reader is left primarily with the sense of beauty of the human spirit, which endures in Vietnam.
The characterisation is superb. The reader feels we know these people, each generation reflecting the different values of a tortured Vietnam. The old man’s story is revealed little by little, starting in the present when he’s and endearing street Pho maker and seller who is endlessly moved along. We gradually go back into his past , where so much history and pain is gently revealed by the author. The characters surrounding him are equally as artistically portrayed.
For a book that reveals so much of the cruelty and horror of Vietnam’s past, the reader is left primarily with the sense of beauty of the human spirit, which endures in Vietnam.
March 27, 2025
Very interesting read - a part of history I knew little about and now am curious to read more.
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