Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming review, recensie en informatie roman van de Canadese Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg schrijfster. Op 4 november 2025 verschijnt bij And Other Stories, de heruitgave van de roman uit 2021 van de Canadese schrijfster Leanne Betasamosake Simpson en a lid van de Alderville First Nation. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Noopiming review en recensie
- “This brilliant novel is a carefully curated mix of prose and poetry, though the narrative and poetic form never leaves either; at all times, there is a deliberate attention to rhythm, movement, and sound. The layered storytelling is rich with wry and undeniable humour and introduces readers to an incredible cast of characters, giving us the perspective of Elders, Indigenous youth, raccoons, geese, and trees, braiding together past, present, and future and intentionally centring Nishnaabe life and practices.” (Globe and Mail)
- “Language is thrilling in Simpson’s work, and nowhere more so than in this newest offering. This novel will be reread for its many truths and teachings and for its undeniable power. The complicated questions Noopiming poses are worth revisiting, and the novel’s wisdom will continue to grow as the reader does.” (Quill & Quire)
Noopiming
The Cure for White Ladies
- Auteur: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Canada)
- Soort boek: Canadese First Nation roman uit 2021
- Taal: Engels
- Uitgever: And Other Stories
- Verschijnt: 4 november 2025
- Omvang: 368 pagina’s
- Uitgave: paperback / ebook
- Prijs:
- Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris
Flaptekst van het boek van Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Akiwenzii is the old man and their will. Ninaatig is the maple tree; they are their lungs. Mindimooyenh is the old woman who holds it all together; she is their conscience. Sabe, the honest sasquatch, is the marrow in their bones. Adik is the caribou and their nervous system. Asin, human, is their eyes and ears; Lucy, human, their mind. Together they are Mashkawaji, our narrator, who may be frozen stiff but still remembers a time of connection everywhere.
When Mashkawaji’s parts attempt to commune with the world around them, they find it’s a strange place, full of SpongeBob Band-Aids and branded coffee mugs. Exposing the unnatural solitude at the heart of settler-capitalism and fully grounded in Indigenous ways of being, Noopiming offers a moving and wickedly funny vision of what modern togetherness might look like – even as it breaks open the self to a world still alive with people, animals, ancestors, and spirits.
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg writer, scholar, and musician, and a member of Alderville First Nation. She is the author of five previous books, including This Accident of Being Lost, which won the MacEwan Book of the Year and the Peterborough Arts Award for Outstanding Achievement by an Indigenous Author; was a finalist for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Trillium Book Award; was longlisted for CBC Canada Reads; and was named a best book of the year by the Globe and Mail, National Post, and Quill & Quire. She has released two albums, including f(l)ight, which is a companion piece to This Accident of Being Lost.
