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1974. Leni for thirteen years, her father recently returned from the Vietnamese war. He returned not at all the same as before - evil to the whole world, bewildered and broken. And soon received an inheritance - a small plot of land where there are almost no people, where only a beautiful, albeit harsh nature - in Alaska. And soon Leni and parents go to this mysterious and unknown world. And at first it seems that Alaska answers all their hopes and expectations. In this wild land, they find a community of strong men and even stronger women. But winter is approaching, and darkness and cold slowly fall into Alaska, which will turn his father into a wild beast. And what began as an adventure, turns into a drama. Lena and her mother have to find out that Alaska is not only beautiful, but also terrible that she can also save and destroy. In this region, every day puts a person before the choice between life and death. In this wilderness, on the very outskirts of civilization, a person understands himself a true price.
1978. Lena is already an adult girl, she got used to it in the wild, fell in love with him, became her own. Love entered her life, she dreams of the future. But the past tenaciously holds it, not wanting to let go. And the drama rapidly develops into a tragedy.
New Roman Christine Hannah - incredible intensity Family saga, full of violent events and strong feelings. The love story and the almost Shakespearean drama unfold against the backdrop of beautiful landscapes of Alaska.
Christine Hannah is the author of more than 20 novels, including the “nightingale ", an incredibly successful world bestseller.
After the incredible success of the nightingale, Christine Hannah was a huge art to go on this path for the second time, but she overcame it. And she wrote a family drama unfolding in the harsh landscapes of Alaska. This book is not at all like the “nightingale”, but it is also not like everything that Christine Hannah wrote before. Christine knows firsthand about Alaska - she grew up there, her parents live there to this day. Her family is one of the most respected in this harsh country. After entering the United States, the novel immediately fell on the upper lines of the lists of bestseller, where it has been holding for several months
Hannah has a heightened sense of drama. In a new novel, she turned to the history of her own family, who lived at the last line of America - in Alaska, severe and impregnable. In the 1970s, Alaska had not yet become a place where countless tourists flock, it was a land of harsh men and persistent women, the edge of loners surviving in the fight against nature. It was during these years that Christine Hannah’s new book takes place.
"We came to Alaska in the seventies. The time was turbulent: demonstrations of protest, terrorist attacks, abduction of people. Every now and then the students disappeared. The war in Vietnam divided the country. From such a life we fled to Alaska. Like many Chichako before and after us, we were prepared badly. No money, no suitable clothes, no supplies. We really did not know how. We moved to the hut in the remote corner of the Kenai peninsula and quickly realized that they were completely not adapted. Even the car (we then had a Volkswagen minibus) unsuccessfully. I was somehow told that Alaska does not educate character, but reveals. No matter how regrettable it is to admit this, but the local darkness revealed the darkness in my father’s soul. He fought in Vietnam, was captured. Then we did not understand what this means. Now we know. Science does not stand still, we learned to help like my father. We understand that war is able to break even strong in spirit. Then he had nowhere to wait for help from. However, like a woman who became his victim. The local wilderness with her darkness and frosts terribly influenced her father, turned him into a wild beast, like those who live in the taiga. But then we could not think about it. And how did we know? We, like many others, dreamed, paved the route, then attached a poster with the inscription "Alaska or Death!" And they went north, completely unaware of what was waiting for us there.
This state, this land is not like any other. He is beautiful and terrible, he destroys and saves. Here, where you have to choose, live or die again and again, in the most remote corner of America, on the outskirts of civilization, where water in all its forms can kill you, you understand who you are. No one want to be, who you consider yourself or by whom you were brought up. All this will destroy the months of the chilling darkness, when the window does not really discern anything to the window, the window is, and you suddenly comprehend the truth about yourself. You understand what you are capable of surviving. This lesson is a revelation, as my mother once told me about love - a great and terrible gift of Alaska. Those who came here exclusively for beauty, for some kind of invented life, those who are looking for asylum here, inevitably await disappointment. In the boundless expanses of the local unpredictable taiga, people either open the best in themselves and bloom, or with screams run away from darkness, cold and difficulties. There is no third. Here, in the endless wilderness, there can be no talk of security.
For us, those few who are strong and strong, for dreamers Alaska once and for all become a home, a song that you hear when everything around freezes and calms down. You either become part of this land, as wild and indomitable as it or not. I became".
Emotional family saga, unfolding in the 1970s against the backdrop of harsh and beautiful landscapes of Alaska.
PEOPLE
An amazing combination of Greek tragedy, love melodrama and dramatic family saga.
Kirkus Review
A convincing portrait of a family, who was on the verge of destruction, and society on the eve of huge changes. Only mountains and forests of Alaska are unchanged in their impregnable beauty. A magnificent novel about the indestructible connection between a mother and a child, about the greatness of a woman, ready to literally pack the mountains for her beloved.
Journal Journal
I have not just fallen in love with this book, I am obsessed with it. Christine Hannah wrote a masterful novel that love can both save us and destroy.
Karin Swan, Sunday Times
Romance and beautiful landscapes of Alaska, against which a complex family drama unfolds, fill the book with a huge charm, which cannot be ignored.
Bookbrowse Review
An epic novel about human will and the ability to overcome unthinkable.
Real Simple
1978. Lena is already an adult girl, she got used to it in the wild, fell in love with him, became her own. Love entered her life, she dreams of the future. But the past tenaciously holds it, not wanting to let go. And the drama rapidly develops into a tragedy.
New Roman Christine Hannah - incredible intensity Family saga, full of violent events and strong feelings. The love story and the almost Shakespearean drama unfold against the backdrop of beautiful landscapes of Alaska.
Christine Hannah is the author of more than 20 novels, including the “nightingale ", an incredibly successful world bestseller.
After the incredible success of the nightingale, Christine Hannah was a huge art to go on this path for the second time, but she overcame it. And she wrote a family drama unfolding in the harsh landscapes of Alaska. This book is not at all like the “nightingale”, but it is also not like everything that Christine Hannah wrote before. Christine knows firsthand about Alaska - she grew up there, her parents live there to this day. Her family is one of the most respected in this harsh country. After entering the United States, the novel immediately fell on the upper lines of the lists of bestseller, where it has been holding for several months
Hannah has a heightened sense of drama. In a new novel, she turned to the history of her own family, who lived at the last line of America - in Alaska, severe and impregnable. In the 1970s, Alaska had not yet become a place where countless tourists flock, it was a land of harsh men and persistent women, the edge of loners surviving in the fight against nature. It was during these years that Christine Hannah’s new book takes place.
"We came to Alaska in the seventies. The time was turbulent: demonstrations of protest, terrorist attacks, abduction of people. Every now and then the students disappeared. The war in Vietnam divided the country. From such a life we fled to Alaska. Like many Chichako before and after us, we were prepared badly. No money, no suitable clothes, no supplies. We really did not know how. We moved to the hut in the remote corner of the Kenai peninsula and quickly realized that they were completely not adapted. Even the car (we then had a Volkswagen minibus) unsuccessfully. I was somehow told that Alaska does not educate character, but reveals. No matter how regrettable it is to admit this, but the local darkness revealed the darkness in my father’s soul. He fought in Vietnam, was captured. Then we did not understand what this means. Now we know. Science does not stand still, we learned to help like my father. We understand that war is able to break even strong in spirit. Then he had nowhere to wait for help from. However, like a woman who became his victim. The local wilderness with her darkness and frosts terribly influenced her father, turned him into a wild beast, like those who live in the taiga. But then we could not think about it. And how did we know? We, like many others, dreamed, paved the route, then attached a poster with the inscription "Alaska or Death!" And they went north, completely unaware of what was waiting for us there.
This state, this land is not like any other. He is beautiful and terrible, he destroys and saves. Here, where you have to choose, live or die again and again, in the most remote corner of America, on the outskirts of civilization, where water in all its forms can kill you, you understand who you are. No one want to be, who you consider yourself or by whom you were brought up. All this will destroy the months of the chilling darkness, when the window does not really discern anything to the window, the window is, and you suddenly comprehend the truth about yourself. You understand what you are capable of surviving. This lesson is a revelation, as my mother once told me about love - a great and terrible gift of Alaska. Those who came here exclusively for beauty, for some kind of invented life, those who are looking for asylum here, inevitably await disappointment. In the boundless expanses of the local unpredictable taiga, people either open the best in themselves and bloom, or with screams run away from darkness, cold and difficulties. There is no third. Here, in the endless wilderness, there can be no talk of security.
For us, those few who are strong and strong, for dreamers Alaska once and for all become a home, a song that you hear when everything around freezes and calms down. You either become part of this land, as wild and indomitable as it or not. I became".
Emotional family saga, unfolding in the 1970s against the backdrop of harsh and beautiful landscapes of Alaska.
PEOPLE
An amazing combination of Greek tragedy, love melodrama and dramatic family saga.
Kirkus Review
A convincing portrait of a family, who was on the verge of destruction, and society on the eve of huge changes. Only mountains and forests of Alaska are unchanged in their impregnable beauty. A magnificent novel about the indestructible connection between a mother and a child, about the greatness of a woman, ready to literally pack the mountains for her beloved.
Journal Journal
I have not just fallen in love with this book, I am obsessed with it. Christine Hannah wrote a masterful novel that love can both save us and destroy.
Karin Swan, Sunday Times
Romance and beautiful landscapes of Alaska, against which a complex family drama unfolds, fill the book with a huge charm, which cannot be ignored.
Bookbrowse Review
An epic novel about human will and the ability to overcome unthinkable.
Real Simple
Author:
Author:Hannah K.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:Offset
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86471-792-9
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