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Carregando... The Sixteen Trees of the Somme (original: 2014; edição: 2017)de Lars Mytting (Tradutor), Paul Russell Garrett (Tradutor)
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. A family chronicle that slowly, slowly takes you on a journey of love, grief, and loss spanning generations. There is beautiful prose that painted every place in my mind, in detail. I liked the way the mystery was gradually revealed. I was left with a feeling of gentle sorrow and a kind of catharsis. My only complaint is Gwen - a character that quickly became unnecessary, unrealistic, and rather irritating. She felt like a piece of the puzzle that didn't quite fit. Still, this novel will probably stay in my mind for a long time. Highly recommended. Acompanyant el protagonista en la seva descoberta de la pròpia història i la de la seva família, he après moltíssim: de geografia, de la Segona Guerra Mundial, de la Noruega rural, del Somme, de fusta i sentiments. Haig de dir que en algun moment m'ha semblat que el llibre perdia ritme, massa detall. L'he llegit en castellà, perquè no el disposava en català, i la traducció m'ha semblat molt bona.
4/6 stjerner "... »Svøm med dem som drukner« er slægtshistorie og melodrama med thrilleragtige elementer...." "Myttings nye roman begynner nydelig, men taper seg når den blir til en heseblesende kodeknekkende guttebok for voksne ... Spennende lesning, uten tvil. Mytting tegner et turistindustrivennlig, sikkert realistisk bilde av vakre og våte Shetland. Han turnerer mange personer og flere tidsplan på likt nesten uten å snuble, og krydrer fortellingen med våpen, kriger, båter, biler og andre machoeffekter .... På sitt beste snekrer Mytting setninger og passasjer minst like vakre som kunstmøblene i edeltre han beskriver. Neste gang kan han droppe de masseproduserte pinnestolene i billigfuru som fulgte med på kjøpet." "Til tider stor underholdning, og jammen lærte jeg noe nytt på kjøpet. Jeg skulle likevel ønske Lars Mytting hadde større tiltro til at jeg som leser kan tenke selv ... Jeg liker å lese en underholdningsroman skrevet av en mannlig forfatter. Jeg liker grundigheten i beskrivelsene av redskaper, sansen for hendenes arbeid og understrekingen av at første verdenskrigs tragedie fremdeles kaster skygger over etterkommere i mange land. Jeg liker dessuten ambisjonen om å slå på den episke stortromma. Likevel: Litt mer finsnekring kunne gjort seg, når reisverket først er så originalkonstruert som her" Terningkast 4. "Svøm med dem som drukner» er en ganske velskrevet, interessant og til tider spennende roman ... det er stort sett både engasjerende og velfortalt. Men når forfatteren til stadighet tyr til virkemidler som gamle brev og dokumenter, etterlatte kjoler eller låser og nøkler for å få intrigen til å gå opp, blir det etter hvert i overkant forutsigbart det hele..." "...Det er jordbundet og maskulint univers. På sitt beste, som ved romanenes innledende sider, skriver Mytting sanselig, tett på menneske og natur, følsomt og ujålete. Men tidvis tangeres også det forutsigbare og klisjéfylte i handling og språk ... Mytting er en begavet og varm historiesnekker, selv om noen skjøter synes litt godt.." Pertence à série publicadainsel taschenbuch (4583)
The death of Edvard's parents when he was three has always been a mystery but he knows that the fate of his grandfather's brother, Einar, is somehow connected. One day a coffin is delivered to the farm for his grandfather, long before the grandfather's death--a meticulous, beautiful, and unique piece of craftsmanship with the hallmarks of a certain master craftsman--raising the thought that Einar isn't dead after all. Edvard is now driven to unravel the mystery of his parents' death. Following a trail of clues from Norway to the Shetland Islands to the battlefields of France and sixteen ancient walnut trees colored by poison gas in World War I, Edvard ultimately discovers a very unusual inheritance. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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This book is a captivating historical mystery set in 1991 but shifting back to events in the 1970s and WWII. Written by Norwegian author Lars Mytting, it begins in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway and moves to Haaf Gruney on the Shetland Isles and to Somme and Authuille in France.
Edvard Hirifjell grows up on a potato farm with his grandparents Sverre and Alma. After his grandfather dies a coffin arrives for him from the Shetland Islands from his supposedly long deceased brother Einar. Edvard is struck with the need to find out more about the mysterious Einar and also about the deaths of his parents back in the 1970s when they wandered into a forest in Authuille and were killed by unexploded shells dating back to the Black Watch Soldiers and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, wherein over a million lives were lost. There are also unanswered questions about an interval of four days when Edvard himself, as a small child, was missing, presumed kidnapped. All the questions take Edvard on a trip back to Haaf Gruney island, despite the protests of his recently returned ex-girlfriend Hanne.
On the Shetlands he soon meets the elusive Gwen Winterfinch, heiress to the Winterfinch timber fortune. Gwen is also searching for the invaluable timber harvested from the walnut trees in the forest at Authuille; trees whose timber is shaped and warped by the gasses from the war, in a forest owned by the Daveaux family of Edvard’s mother and grandmother, where Gwen’s grandfather’s men were wounded and died. The two of them work together, but unable to be transparent and honest with each other, race to find answers to what happened between her grandfather Captain Duncan Winterfell of the Black Watch, timber merchant, and his uncle Einar, master timber craftsman, and what happened to the sixteen trees.
This was an intriguing and complex story, occasionally I missed a few points, but I was caught up in the mystery, in the beauty of the timber, and the islands. This is an atmospheric tale that I thoroughly enjoyed. My only criticism was that neither romance felt convincing to me, and I did not find myself rooting for either woman. I would definitely recommend this book and would look out for another by Lars Mytting. ( )