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Title: Gingerbread
Author: Robert Dinsdale
Narrator: Jonathan Keeble
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-14
Publisher: Whole Story Audio
Genres: Fiction, Literary
Publisher's Summary:
In the depths of winter in the land of Belarus, where ancient forests straddle modern country borders, an orphaned boy and his grandfather go to scatter his mothers ashes in the woodlands. But the driving snow also hides a frozen history of long-buried secrets. And as man and boy travel deeper among the trees, grandfathers tales begin to interweave with the shocking reality of his own past.
Critic Reviews:
"Gingerbread is a novel of perfect balance With each turn of the page the atmosphere intensifies" (Ali Shaw, author of The Girl With Glass Feet)
"Matches the rigour of Cormac McCarthys The Road but as if the Brothers Grim had hijacked it gripping" (James Long, author of Ferney)
Members Reviews:
Immensely gripping annd incredibly magnificent novel about the wild and a boy who hugs the wilderness!
Nancy Wynne Newhall was an American photography critic, who once quoted remarkably about the wilderness in nature:
âThe Wilderness holds answers to more questions than we have yet learned to ask.â
Robert Dinsdale, an English author, has spun a spectacularly wild tale about a boy, some unforgettable forest fables and forest in the unexplored land of Belarus, in his new novel, Gingerbread.
I'd like to thank the author immensely, for sending me over the copy of his new novel, in return for an honest review.
A young boy travels to the other part of city with his mama to visit his grandpa, who he used to address as "papa". But then his mother dies due to cancer, and his mama make him promise her that he would take care of his "papa" no matter what. Thus begins the story of a boy and a man who was once a boy! His mother wanted to take her ashes to the tenement where she grew up with her baba and papa in the forest. But after reaching the forest and after laying his mama alongside her baba, his "papa" couldn't leave the forest and become relentless to go away from the wild, so they settle up there in the forest by making camps and dens and eating the dead his mama's gingerbread and listening to the trees and living up with the wild. Each season goes by, and the boy's "papa's" wild fables become wilder and more sinister with the tales of the Perpetual Winter in the City of Gulag and the Winter King's wrath. But when a little girl, named Elenya comes to live in the forest along with her parents in the boy's old house, things get changed and the boy becomes more drawn to the life he had abandoned in the city and seeing the girl with her parents in a warm home, leave the boy with a longing feeling and thus eventually he grows more distant from his "papa". Will the boy hold onto his wild "papa" to keep his mother's promise? Will his longing make him go away from the wild which is now his only home? Read this delirious novel which not only awes your mind but also leaves your heart with a longing feeling for the unknown wild out there.
You must be wondering what the boy's name and why the protagonist do not have a name, well to be honest, that's a mystery and it is revealed later, and for that you really need to read this compelling novel!
This is a good book to break away from the daily hustle-bustle of the city. But this book is not a light-read book, instead, it has got a depth like The Devil's Sinkhole, that for the whole time you lose yourself in the wilderness of the forests.
