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| Original Title: | Dinas bok |
| ISBN: | 0552996734 (ISBN13: 9780552996730) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Dina #1 |
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| Title | : | Dina's Book (Dina #1) |
| Author | : | Herbjørg Wassmo |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 527 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1996 by Black Swan (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature |
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On the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets.Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina's Book presents an extraordinary heroine. Beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous, Dina carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally causes her mother's death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. Nobody leads the child through her grief, and the accident remains a gruesome riddle of death. Her guilt becomes her obsession: her unforgiving mother haunts her every day.
After several years of exile, and at the insistence of the local pastor, her father takes Dina back. By now she has become like a wolf cub. Her father has remarried, to a younger woman whom she detests, and a strict discipline begins. A tutor is brought in; coarse language is replaced by polite conversation, climbing to the top of the trees by music. But the efforts have little effect. Private and closely guarded, Dina nonetheless is able to manipulate those around her, while her unconventional behavior and erotic power both enchant and ensnare.
At sixteen Dina is married off to wealthy fifty-year-old landowner Jacob, a friend of her father who has fallen completely under her spell. Jacob dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina becomes mute. When finally she emerges from her trauma, she runs Jacob's estate with an iron hand. But still Dina wrestles with her two unappeased ghosts: Jacob and her mother. Until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever.
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This book threw me away when I read it for the first time, in 2002, and it did once again now. The author describes every person, location and scenario so well, so that you as the reader becomes the fly on the wall, looking down on the situations, the people, and the ghosts of the past even more so! I think I will make a pact with myself to read the book again in 16 years time. I believe the story will never lose its magic. I read it in Norwegian, so I'm not sure whether the writing is equallyThis was an epic read. I was drawn into the story from the first page. The characters were developed and interesting. There were constant moral dilemmas that were handled in several ways. It surprised me at every chapter, especially the ending. The setting was vivid and authentic.
It's been a while since I read a book with such a thrill! This one is so, so exciting, and deep, real, authentic, unpredictable, empowering, all at the same time, that's a rare combination... There are no profound quotes in it, no showing off - only life as it is.Dina does what she has to. Fullstop. But the end is brutal. I hate what she did.
The story of Dina is as ferocious as its heroine. The story's set in 19th century Norway when the role of the woman was vastly different from today's women in the same country. Even Ibsen's Nora pales next to the independence of Dina, who can run a household and estate, wrap men around every finger of her both hands, and expose injustice and dishonesty wherever she goes. For a woman -- and human -- Dina is like a force of nature, and she feels incredibly real through the pages of a mere book
This book was voted the best Norwegian novel of the 1980s. The milieu is a well-off trading house on the coast of Northern Norway around 1850.Being my first encounter with this female Norwegian author I sense I have discovered a new world class author that can be compared with Hamsun and Undset, also in the type of writing, epic novel with a very strong psychological aspect, not in that it psychologizes but in the depth and complexity of the characters. Indeed, the protagonist is herself quite a
I'm a sucker for anything Norwegian so I liked this novel, set in the mid to late 19th century, when the coastal steamer had just started making Northern Norway accessible year round. But our heroine, Dina, bugged me. I had a hard time believing she was so completely irresistible to all men. And I got frustrated as she rejected the love of several decent men. When her "true love" finally came along, it was hard for me to see what was so special about him. Also, the sex scenes got really boring
Wow!
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