by Herbjørg Wassmo · Black Swan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780552996730
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«Dina's Book» is the historical novel by Norwegian writer Herbjørg Wassmo, published by Black Swan in paperback (528 pages, in English).
In mid-nineteenth-century Norway, Dina accidentally causes her mother's death by letting go of a vat of boiling lye. Guilt makes her wild and manipulative. Dina marries a landowner at sixteen; his mysterious death leaves her mute and in charge of the household, until Leo, a stranger from Russia, enters her life.
First installment of the Dina trilogy; translated from the Norwegian by Nadia M. Christensen. The original work, «Dinas bok», was published in 1989.
For readers of historical fiction and Scandinavian literature, with a complex female protagonist.
Herbjørg Wassmo is a Norwegian author.
