can anyone recommend a good old wintery book?
Question by mrs d: can anyone recommend a good old wintery book?
we are going to lapland soon on holiday and would love to read something set in a snowy/wintery landscape.
i like most subjects
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Answer by Christin :]
The Watson’s go to Birmingham.
It isn’t a very long book.
but it’s the most well written,
most amazing book i have read in a very long time.
it’s very “wintery”
try it, im sure you will love it (:
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The Kristin Lavransdatter books by Sigurd Undset:
Kristin Lavransdatter is a trilogy of three volumes. Written during 1920-22, it won her the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1928. In 1995 the first volume was the basis for a commercial film, Kristin Lavransdatter, directed by Liv Ullman.
These are listed in order:
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wreath. ISBN 0-14-118041-2
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Wife, ISBN 0-14-118128-1
Kristin Lavransdatter: The Cross, ISBN 0-14-118235-0
The cycle follows the life of Kristin Lavransdatter, a fictitious Norwegian woman who lived in the 14th century.
I’m not sure where in Norway these take place.
Also I have enjoyed the modern detective stories by Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, a husband and wife team of detective writers from Sweden. Together they conceived and wrote a series of ten novels (police procedurals) about the exploits of detectives from the the special homicide commission of the national police in which the character of Martin Beck was the main protagonist. For the Martin Beck series, they plotted and researched each book together then wrote alternate chapters.
Roseanna (Roseanna, 1965)
The Man Who Went Up in Smoke (Mannen som gick upp i rök, 1966)
The Man on the Balcony (Mannen på balkongen, 1967)
The Laughing Policeman (Den skrattande polisen, 1968) (Edgar Award, Best Novel, 1971)
The Fire Engine That Disappeared (Brandbilen som försvann, 1969)
Murder at the Savoy (Polis, polis, potatismos!, 1970)
The Abominable Man (Den vedervärdige mannen från Säffle, 1971)
The Locked Room (Det slutna rummet, 1972)
Cop Killer (Polismördaren, 1974)
The Terrorists (Terroristerna, 1975)
The leitmotif of the series, written from the authors’ clearly defined socialist viewpoint, is to indicate how Sweden, as a country which champions social democracy, nevertheless has the same problems of inequality and crime as other capitalist countries. The political events of the times often play a significant role as backdrop for the plots, such as the Greek dictatorship and the Vietnam War. Because the authors intended the books as a critique of capitalist society, all the titles in the original edition were given the subtitle “report of a crime” as a purposefully ambiguous phrase.
The part that seems to draw me in the most is this socialist point of view that is so different from my own.
Hope you enjoy your trip! Travel safely!
I immediately thought of these books. They’re all fantasy and for children, but are also (like Harry Potter) read and enjoyed by a wide range of age-groups. I enjoyed them very much.
“The Dark is Rising” by Susan Cooper. It’s one of a sequence of five fantasy books, but very good. There’s quite a lot of snow in it!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Is_Rising_Sequence#The_Dark_Is_Rising
“The Giant Under the Snow” by John Gordon. A virtually unknown, but good, fantasy.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Giant-Under-Snow-John-Gordon/dp/1842555227
“The Weirdstone of Brisingamen” by Alan Garner. Again a fantasy, but a magical Fimbulwinter pervades the latter part of the book.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weirdstone_of_Brisingamen