Ingrid and the Wolf, Andre Alexis
Ingrid and the Wolf, Andre Alexis
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Ingrid and the Wolf

Author: Andre Alexis

Narrator: Sonja Smits

Unabridged: 3 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tundra Books

Published: 12/08/2020


Synopsis

Like all of us, Ingrid wants to belong, especially to a family. Now, she does have parents whom she loves very much, but she has a sense that there is more to her past than she’s been told. When the opportunity presents itself for her to visit Hungary, Ingrid takes it despite her parents’ objections.

What she finds in the old country is enchanting, gorgeous, and terrifying. Her legacy is nothing like she expected. It is a creature that is, by turns, loving and vicious. It is a wolf.

Ingrid realizes that she is the caretaker of her unusual inheritance, like it or not.

Award-winning author André Alexis delivers his storytelling skills to a new generation of readers in this, his first children’s book.

About The Author

André Alexis was born in Trinidad in 1957 and grew up in Canada. His début novel, Childhood (1998), won the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award, shared the Trillium Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It has been published around the world. He is also the author of an internationally acclaimed collection of short stories, Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa (1994) – which was shortlisted for a Regional Commonwealth Prize – and he has published a play, Lambton Kent (1999). André Alexis lives in Toronto.


Reviews

این‌قدر از اسمش و خلاصه‌ش و همه‌چی‌ش خوشم اومده بود که ازش انتظار یه شاهکار داشتم. یه کتاب معمولی بود. یه جاهایی داستان خیلی تند می‌شد انگار که یکی داره نویسنده رو دنبال می‌کنه. یه فضایی شبیه قصه‌های پریان داشت. همون حس رو. از اینش خوشم اومد. فقط آخرش نفهمیدم، قرار بود مادربزرگه سه تا آزمون داشته باشه......more

Goodreads review by Afrooz

یک داستان معمولی با کمی تم فانتزی خیالی توی دنیای نوجوانان، بدک نبود.......more

Goodreads review by Amir

نام و طرح جلدش بود که جذبم کرد. جزء داستان‌های خوب نوجوانی بود که خوانده‌ام. فانتزی‌اش، که پهلو به پهلو قصه‌های پریان می‌زد، در لحظاتی فوق‌العاده بود اما در کلیت چنین نمی‌ماند. در هر حال حتماً به یکبار خواندنش می‌ارزد.‏......more


Quotes

“…André Alexis presents a main character who is smart and engaging and real. Ingrid's story echoes setting and character from the great Victorian novels and has a touch of the magic of the great, timeless fairy tales… I was reminded of Burnett's The Secret Garden as I read this novel, with that story's dark and foreboding house and its bold young heroine bringing a family together. Highly Recommended.”
CM Magazine


Awards

  • Governor General's Literary Award - Children (English)