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Title: Dina's Book
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Herbjorg Wassmo, Nadia M. Christensen (translator)
Narrator: Julia Farhat
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 08-31-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
From the winner of the Nordic countries' Pulitzer Prize comes "the gut-wrenching portrait of a woman forever in the grip of her past" (Los Angeles Times).
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 mothers 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 Jacobs estate with an iron hand...until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever.
Editorial Reviews:
From the acclaimed and award-winning author Herbojorg Wassmo, Diana's Book is the story of a young Norwegian girl who, after causing the accidental death of her mother, is banished by her father to a distant farm. A story of guilt and erotic desire, Wassmo's novel is replete with characters who are haunted by their pasts, both metaphorically and literally. Julie Farhat reads Nadia M. Christensen's translation with graceful ease, expertly alluding to the longing and loneliness present in every word.
Members Reviews:
Amazing Story
What made the experience of listening to Dina's Book the most enjoyable?
I like to read and listen at the same time, having the audible makes it so easy for me to listen and read. I have vision problems and this really helps. The book is very very good. Kindle can deliver everything I love. This story is also on DVD.
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Title: Dina's Book
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Herbjorg Wassmo, Nadia M. Christensen (translator)
Narrator: Julia Farhat
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs
Language: English
Release date: 08-31-13
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Fiction, Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
From the winner of the Nordic countries' Pulitzer Prize comes "the gut-wrenching portrait of a woman forever in the grip of her past" (Los Angeles Times).
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 mothers 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 Jacobs estate with an iron hand...until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever.
Editorial Reviews:
From the acclaimed and award-winning author Herbojorg Wassmo, Diana's Book is the story of a young Norwegian girl who, after causing the accidental death of her mother, is banished by her father to a distant farm. A story of guilt and erotic desire, Wassmo's novel is replete with characters who are haunted by their pasts, both metaphorically and literally. Julie Farhat reads Nadia M. Christensen's translation with graceful ease, expertly alluding to the longing and loneliness present in every word.
Members Reviews:
Amazing Story
What made the experience of listening to Dina's Book the most enjoyable?
I like to read and listen at the same time, having the audible makes it so easy for me to listen and read. I have vision problems and this really helps. The book is very very good. Kindle can deliver everything I love. This story is also on DVD.