· “The Embalmer” by Anne-Renee Caille. Novem Novem ~ Lucy. Thanks to Coach House and Netgalley for the review copy. This is a rather unusual yet compelling book. I guess I hesitate to call it a book at all. It’s more a series of vignettes by a narrator interviewing her funeral director father about some of his past. A small-town embalmer's daughter lifts the shroud on the fascinating minutiae of dealing with the dead. Imagine rubbing shoulders with the dead for most of your life. As she picks the brain of her father for the most gruesome and thought-provoking secrets of his embalming career - from the drowned boy whose organs were eaten by eels to how to inject just the right amount of colour into a corpse's skin for that . · A brief, impressionistic novel recalling the narrator’s father’s memories of his work patching up the dead, this slim book is made up of just as much white space as actual text, and it is in these gaps between scenes of extraordinarily vivid evocations of deaths that the experience of The Embalmer begs the question: How, in the face of certain death, do we make sense of life?
The Embalmer - by Anne-Renée Caillé (Paperback) undefined out of 5 stars with 0 reviews. be the first! be the first! ratings. Help us improve this page. About this item. Details. Shipping Returns. QA. Specifications. Number of Pages: Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres. Sub-Genre: Literary. The Embalmer is about one man's journey to overcome his Claustrophobic disease so that he can support his wife and kids. After obtaining a job at a funeral home Tome Sindler experiences what no claustrophobic person would ever envision happening to them - love, sacrifice and betrayal. The Embalmer (Anne-Renee Caille) Embers (Sandor Marai) ADVERTISEMENT. The Emigrants (W.G. Sebald) The Emigrants (Vilhelm Moberg) Emile - Or, on Education (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) Emilia Galotti (Gotthold Ephraim Lessing) Emma (Jane Austen) Empire of the Ants (Bernard Werber).
The Embalmer by Anne-Renée Caillé (translated by Rhonda Mullins) A brief, impressionistic novel recalling the narrator’s father’s memories of his work patching. In this literary fiction, Anne-Renée Caillé’s narrator plumbs the depths of her father’s experiences during his time as an embalmer. What seems like a macabre subject is handled with a far more matter of a fact manner. We modern-day people are removed from death, out of sight, out of mind. The Embalmer - Kindle edition by Caillé Anne-Reneé, Mullins Rhonda. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Embalmer.
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