The Re-Read: The Sacrifice by Adele Wiseman
Originally aired on October 23
Re-release September 02
Sign up/in to register for this event
In partnership with Writers’ Trust of Canada, we have created a series of dialogues exploring the last 75 years of writing in Canada. Each session brings you a contemporary writer in conversation with an important work of fiction or theatre that has offered a key moment of definition, change or challenge. Together, we get to ask questions around how major books can help shape and evolve deeper understandings of our culture.
This session covers The Sacrifice by Adele Wiseman, published in 1956 and considered to be one of Canada’s first novels to focus on the immigrant experience. The Sacrifice is a haunting depiction of one family and its often tragic attempts to come to terms with a new life in a new country. It is a moving, almost biblical story of a father possessed by his hope for his only son; of a son who rebels against his father’s ideals, yet sacrifices himself to preserve what his father most prizes; and of a grandson who must reconcile the flaws in his inheritance.
Presenter: Anne Michaels
Moderator: Hal Wake
English captioning is available for this video. Please click the ‘CC’ button in the video toolbar to turn it on.
