· Adele Wiseman explores many themes, beginning most obviously with the nature of sacrifice. There are as many variations on the theme as there are characters. The Sacrifice is a story of the immigrant experience. This family is the Everyman family, reflecting through their relative anonymity their symbolic state. In partnership with the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Writers’ Trust created a series of dialogues exploring the last 75 years of writing in. · Adele Wiseman’s The Sacrifice (1) follows the experiences of a Jewish family which has emigrated from the Ukraine and settled in Canada. The novel covers three generations, starting during the pogroms in Tsarist Russia and ending shortly after World War Author: Itzik Basman.
Adele Wiseman's The Sacrifice (1) follows the experiences of a Jewish family which has emigrated from the Ukraine and settled in Canada. The novel covers three generations, starting during the pogroms in Tsarist Russia and ending shortly after World War Adele Wiseman (), author, teacher and social worker, was born on in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She received her B.A. from the University of Manitoba in where she studied with Malcolm Ross and where she began her life long friendship with Margaret Laurence. In partnership with the Toronto International Festival of Authors, the Writers' Trust created a series of dialogues exploring the last 75 years of writing in.
Adele Wiseman - The Sacrifice. Canadian-Jewish author Adele Wiseman’s The Sacrifice. Print. Full Image. Adele Wiseman explores many themes, beginning most obviously with the nature of sacrifice. There are as many variations on the theme as there are characters. The Sacrifice is a story of the immigrant experience. This family is the Everyman family, reflecting through their relative anonymity their symbolic state. Adele Wiseman was a Canadian author. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, she received a BA in English literature and psychology from the University of Manitoba in Her parents were Russian Jews who emigrated from the Ukraine to Canada, in part, to escape the pogroms that accompanied the Russian Civil War. In , Wiseman published her first novel, The Sacrifice, which won the Governor General's Award, Canada's most prestigious literary prize. Her novel, Crackpot, was published in Both novels.
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