Cecilia Ekbäck
Teoksen Wolf Winter tekijä
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The Historians: A Novel of WWII 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1949
- Sukupuoli
- female
- Kansalaisuus
- Sweden
- Asuinpaikat
- Canmore, Alberta, Canada
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Kirja-arvosteluja
Listat
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- 5
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- 1
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- 842
- Suosituimmuussija
- #30,364
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.8
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 51
- ISBN:t
- 57
- Kielet
- 5
Maija, her husband Paavo, her daughters Frederika and Dorotea move into this world from a coastal community. Their battle to survive in a very different life is coloured when they come across a man's body, ripped asunder by ..... well, actually, it must have been by man, not an animal of. This book then is a murder mystery.
Whilst I continued to relish the description of such an alien life, I began to find the mystery and the people involved in it increasingly hard to untangle. Maija and her family, and the community's priest are richly sketched (I wrote 'painted', but this word suggests colours that form no part of this bleak world) . I found it hard to get into the mindset of utterly believing in the overwhelming presence of a spirit life.
I read on, and I read on willingly, because I relished the descriptions. I didn't really mind that the story to some extent passed me by. Four stars or three? Three for story, up to 5 for evocative language.… (lisätietoja)