Dina's Book Audiobook by Herbjorg Wassmo
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Listen to full audiobook for free : https://audiobookzap.com/free Title: Dina's Book Subtitle: A Novel Categories: Coming of Age, Female Protagonist, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Psychological Author: Herbjorg Wassmo Narrator: Julia Farhat Publisher: Audible Studios Release date: 08-31-2013 Language: English Summary: From the winner of the Nordic countries' Pulitzer Prize comes "the gut-wrenching portrait of a woman forever in the grip of her past" (Los Angeles Times). Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina’s Book presents a beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous heroine who carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally caused her mother’s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. No one leads the child through her grief, and the accident remains a gruesome riddle of death, with Dina left haunted by the vindictive spirit of her mother. When her father agrees to take her back after several years, his efforts to cultivate her have little lasting effect. Tamed only by her tutor, who is able to reach her through music and draw out her gift for mathematics, Dina remains private and closely guarded, while her unconventional behavior and erotic power enchant and ensnare those around her. At age sixteen, she is married off to Jacob, a wealthy fifty-year-old landowner, who later dies under odd circumstances. #ad Disclosure: As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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