Dina's Book

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Fiction US $16.95 "The greatness of this book is in its gut-wrenching pörtrait of a woman forever in the grip of her past, who learns only selfishness from her father, finds solace only in sex, certainty only in numbers, and who seems doomed to relive and repeat the events of her childhood for the rest of her days." -Los Angeles Times >•>. ff ¦ • "Spellbinding... the háunting narrative [moves] swiítly to its enigmatic finish." -Publishers Weekly ¦ i . . " . ¦ v - ' - ' - V¦ - !¦'¦- " ¦ ¦ • ' V, ¦ '' • : # " "Rayishing... nöt to be missed." -Booklist - \ ¦- , • , Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dinas Book presents a beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous heroine who carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally caused her mother s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and úntaught. No one leads the child through her grief; the aceident remains a gruesome riddle of death, and she is haunted by the vindictive spirit of her... Tovább

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Fiction US $16.95 "The greatness of this book is in its gut-wrenching pörtrait of a woman forever in the grip of her past, who learns only selfishness from her father, finds solace only in sex, certainty only in numbers, and who seems doomed to relive and repeat the events of her childhood for the rest of her days." -Los Angeles Times >•>. ff ¦ • "Spellbinding... the háunting narrative [moves] swiítly to its enigmatic finish." -Publishers Weekly ¦ i . . " . ¦ v - ' - ' - V¦ - !¦'¦- " ¦ ¦ • ' V, ¦ '' • : # " "Rayishing... nöt to be missed." -Booklist - \ ¦- , • , Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dinas Book presents a beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous heroine who carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally caused her mother s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and úntaught. No one leads the child through her grief; the aceident remains a gruesome riddle of death, and she is haunted by the vindictive spirit of her mother. When her father agrees to take her back after several years, his efforts to cultivate her have little lasting effect. Tamed only by her tutor, who is able to reach her through music and to draw out her gift for mathematics, Dina remains priváté and closely guarded, while her unconventional behavior and erotic power enchant and ensnare those around her. She is married off at age sixteen to Jacob, a wealthy fifty-year-old landowner, who later dies under strange circumstances. Wrestling with her two unappeased ghosts, Dina becomes mute and then emerges from her shock to run Jacobs estate with an iron hand ... until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever. Herbjorg Wassmo, winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize, is one of Scandinavias leading novelists and poets. Her works have been published in twenty-six languages. In 2002, the movie based on Dina's Book, I Am Dina, was released and won numerous awards. Herbjorg Wassmo lives in Norway. Vissza