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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- Burdine, Katherine Arden
- Fødselsdato
- 1988
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- female
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- USA
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- Austin, Texas, USA
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- Moscow, Russia
Vermont, USA
French Alps - Uddannelse
- Middlebury College
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- writer
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- Paul Lucas
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- 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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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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