Dina's Book

Wassmo, Herbjørg

Black Swan.

Dina's Son

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Tora, a young Norwegian girl, faces increasing danger from her stepfather, Henrik, who is bitter, drunk, and unemployed

The House With the Blind Glass Windows (Women in Translation) (English and Norwegian Edition)

Roeann, Lloyd

United States

Seal Pr

A sweeping epic of a flamboyant, unpredictable, and generous woman traces Dina's tumultuous life from the early death of her mother, to her marriage at sixteen to a middle-aged man, to her encounter with a mysterious Russian. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

Literary

Arcade Publishing

A sweeping epic of a flamboyant, unpredictable, and generous woman traces Dina's tumultuous life from the early death of her mother, to her marriage at sixteen to a middle-aged man, to her encounter with a mysterious Russian

This spellbinding novel calls to mind Eliot's Middlemarch and the film Babette's Feast.

Genre Fiction

Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina’s 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 untaught. No one leads the child through her grief, and the accident remains a gruesome riddle of death, with Dina left 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 draw out her gift for mathematics, Dina remains private and closely guarded, while her unconventional behavior and erotic power enchant and ensnare those around her. At age sixteen, she is married off to Jacob, a wealthy fifty-year-old landowner, who later dies under odd circumstances. Wrestling with her two unappeased ghosts, Dina becomes mute and then emerges from her shock to run Jacob’s estate with an iron hand . . . until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever.

Dina's Book: A Novel

Arcade

Cent ans

10 X 18

Gaia

Stulecie (Polish Edition)

Smak Slowa

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