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Originally published: Denver, Colo.: Ghost Road Press, 2008.
Author : Solveig Eggerz
Publisher :
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2014-02-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609531058
Originally published: Denver, Colo.: Ghost Road Press, 2008.
Author : Solveig Eggerz
Publisher : Unbridled Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 160953106X
Having answered a Berlin newspaper advertisement for “strong women who can cook and do farm work,” Sophie Charlotte finds herself married with two sons on an Icelandic sheep farm, trying to sever cords of memory that lead back to the powerful love she knew in Germany and all that she lost there. When World War II began, Charlotte was attached to a supremely talented but politically furious painter in Berlin. But she would lose him twice: first to the resistance and then to the camps. More wounding for Charlotte, however, is the unforgiving trace of their daughter, Lena, who at five years old tragically disappeared into the chaos of the War. This is an extraordinarily beautiful saga that links sure-footed portraits of wartime Berlin and the severity of life in the Icelandic countryside. Moving and genuinely affirming, Seal Woman is a many-colored portrayal of a strong woman’s life broken in two stark and unforgiving worlds separated by the North Atlantic.
Author : Ronald Mathias Lockley
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : 9780454000498
Author : Beverley Farmer
Publisher :
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Jackie Morris
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 17,93 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1845071093
A fisherman named Ewan falls in love with a selkie--half-woman, half-seal--who bears him two children before returning to her own people below the waves. Reprint.
Author : Sally Magnusson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1473638976
'REMARKABLE' Sarah Perry | 'EXTRAORDINARILY IMMERSIVE' Guardian | 'EPIC' Zoe Ball Book Club | 'A REALLY, REALLY GOOD READ' BBC R2 Book Club' | 'LYRICAL' Stylist | 'POETIC' Daily Mail 1627. In a notorious historical event, pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted 400 people into slavery in Algiers. Among them a pastor, his wife, and their children. In her acclaimed debut novel Sally Magnusson imagines what history does not record: the experience of Asta, the pastor's wife, as she faces her losses with the one thing left to her - the stories from home - and forges an ambiguous bond with the man who bought her. Uplifting, moving, and sharply witty, The Sealwoman's Gift speaks across centuries and oceans about loss, love, resilience and redemption. SHORTLISTED FOR THE HWA DEBUT CROWN | THE BEST FIRST NOVEL AWARD | THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE | THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE | THE WAVERTON GOOD READ AWARD | A ZOE BALL ITV BOOK CLUB PICK 'Sally Magnusson has taken an amazing true event and created a brilliant first novel. It's an epic journey in every sense: although it's historical, it's incredibly relevant to our world today. We had to pick it' Zoe Ball Book Club 'Richly imagined and energetically told' Sunday Times 'The best sort of historical novel' Scotsman 'Compelling ' Good Housekeeping 'An accomplished and intelligent novel' Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, author of Why Did You Lie? 'Vivid and compelling' Adam Nichols, co-translator of The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson
Author : Kathryn Harrison
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 33,23 MB
Release : 2003-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 081296845X
For the first time in paperback, here is the bestselling novel by “a writer of extraordinary gifts” (Tobias Wolff). Stunning, hypnotic, spare, The Seal Wife tells the story of a young scientist and his consuming love for a woman known only as the Aleut, a woman who refuses to speak. A novel of passions both dangerous and generative, The Seal Wife explores the nature of desire and its ability to propel an individual beyond himself and outside convention. Kathryn Harrison brilliantly re-creates the Alaskan frontier during the period of the First World War as she explores with deep understanding the interior landscape of the human psyche—a landscape eerily continuous with the splendor and terror of the frozen frontier and the storms that blow over the earth and its face.
Author : Camille Cusumano
Publisher : Seal Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2007-03-17
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1580051979
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Author : Janis Mackay
Publisher : Kelpies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,1 MB
Release : 2014
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781782501305
A classic Scottish folktale, retold with hauntingly beautiful illustrations.
Author : L. Seal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230294502
Women who kill rupture our assumptions about what a woman is. This book explores different socio-cultural understandings of women who commit, or are accused, of murder. A wide range of cases are discussed in order to highlight the ways in which such women have been perceived, and how such cases reflect important social and cultural shifts.