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Katherine Arden

Forfatter af The Bear and the Nightingale

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Katherine Arden is an American writer, born in Austin, Texas. She graduated from Middlebury College in 2011 with degrees in French and Russian. Before becoming a writer, she worked on a farm in Hawaii and as a teaching assistant at a boarding school in the French Alps. Her first book was published vis mere in 2017, The Bear and the Nightingale. Her other books include The Girl in the Tower, The Winter of the Witch, and Small Spaces. vis mindre

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Værker af Katherine Arden

The Bear and the Nightingale (2017) 5,077 eksemplarer
The Girl in the Tower (2017) 1,938 eksemplarer
The Winter of the Witch (2019) 1,546 eksemplarer
Small Spaces (2018) — Forfatter — 700 eksemplarer
Dead Voices (2019) — Forfatter — 417 eksemplarer
The Warm Hands of Ghosts (2024) 192 eksemplarer
Dark Waters (2021) 153 eksemplarer
Empty Smiles (2022) 71 eksemplarer
Winternight Trilogy (2019) 13 eksemplarer

Associated Works

Twice Cursed: An Anthology (2023) — Bidragyder — 46 eksemplarer

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Andre navne
Burdine, Katherine Arden
Fødselsdato
1988
Køn
female
Nationalitet
USA
Fødested
Austin, Texas, USA
Bopæl
Moscow, Russia
Vermont, USA
French Alps
Uddannelse
Middlebury College
Erhverv
writer
teaching assistant
Agent
Paul Lucas
Kort biografi
Born in Austin, Texas, Katherine Arden spent her junior year of high school in Rennes, France.

Following her acceptance to Middlebury College in Vermont, she deferred enrolment for a year in order to live and study in Moscow. At Middlebury, she specialized in French and Russian literature.

After receiving her BA, she moved to Maui, Hawaii, working every kind of odd job imaginable, from grant writing and making crêpes to serving as a personal tour guide. After a year on the island, she moved to Briançon, France, and spent nine months teaching. She then returned to Maui, stayed for nearly a year, then left again to wander. Currently she lives in Vermont, but really, you never know.

She is the author of The Bear and the Nightingale.

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The Warm Hand of Ghosts is a historical novel with a touch of magical realism about the awful war in the fields of Flanders where death, not poppies, was the only harvest. In the book, two narratives dance back and forth but never come together until near the end. When that happens the pace becomes faster and more frenetic.

Laura Iven is working at an emergency hospital treating the 9000 wounded in the great Halifax explosion that also killed both her parents and flattened her home. She receives word that her brother is missing, presumed dead, but his belongings included a note sewn into his jacket from a man pledging to take care of him. She travels back to Belgium with a nursing hero who had been fundraising in Halifax and a woman who lost her husband and son in the war looking to find her son.

The second narrative focuses on Freddie whose story begins after he has been buried by a German pillbox, trapped with a German soldier. They keep each other going while they hope for a miracle while slowly dying of thirst while laying in water contaminated by death and war. Another explosion gives them a chance to escape and again, they save each other even from their fellow soldiers.

Freddie is looking for Laura and Laura is looking for Freddie and you might think they would find each other more quickly as they both find the same man who haunts the battlefield offering drinks and music and a chance to look into a magic mirror. But then is that man real?

The Warm Hands of Ghosts is an intriguing book. The very real horror of war is brought home again and again. The pain, the grief, the testing of one’s courage are so very real. Then there is the magical element. Laura is haunted by ghosts and though she refuses to admit that or take them seriously, they are trying to help her. There is also the vampiric fiddler who feasts on memories, not blood. I guess there is enough blood on the battlefield to glut a vampire who must then seek a more difficult sustenance.

I enjoyed it most of the time though I thought the last bit in Belgium was a bit fast and unlikely, but hey, there are ghosts, so just go with it.

The Warm Hand of Ghosts at Del Rey | Penguin Random House
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Tonstant.Weader | 9 andre anmeldelser | Mar 11, 2024 |
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden is a rich fantasy novel that makes one remember the fairy tales told to them when young. Mostly set in the far northern woods of Russia, we read of Vasilisa Petrovna, daughter of a wealthy boyar and heir to her dead mother’s magic.

Vasya, as she is called, can see spirits, the small creatures that guard their hearth, their stables and live in the woods and lakes that form their land. When her father remarries Vasya realizes that her new stepmom can see the spirits as well, but she is afraid of them and calls them demons. She also dislikes her stepdaughter and wishes to be rid of her. The new priest who has come to their northern lands is obsessed with Vasya but also wishes to tame and control her. Furthermore there is something out in the woods that is watching Vasya with hungry eyes.

The Bear and the Nightingale is an excellent story. The author has woven together Russian folklore and fairy tale magic to come up with a beautiful tale of feudal Russia. The details are deep, colorful and exotic. The story did drag a little here and there as the author was very thorough in her descriptions but she has certainly left me craving more of this story.
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DeltaQueen50 | 290 andre anmeldelser | Mar 6, 2024 |
I loved this story and if you enjoy Russian folklore I think you will too!
 
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s_carr | 290 andre anmeldelser | Feb 25, 2024 |
Good and creepy. This one is a perfect read for autumn. Watch out for scarecrows!
 
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cmbohn | 49 andre anmeldelser | Feb 21, 2024 |

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12
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Medlemmer
10,116
Popularitet
#2,348
Vurdering
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Anmeldelser
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ISBN
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