As the bombs rain down in the Second World War,one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life,she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.
Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant,Byatt's mesmerising tale - inspired by the myth of Ragnarok -is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.
The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers,each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way. Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong,Margaret Atwood,A.S. Byatt,David Grossman,Natsuo Kirino,Alexander McCall Smith,Philip Pullman,Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781786894526Number of pages: 192Weight: 133 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 12 mmEdition: Main - Canons Reissue
MEDIA REVIEWS
'Lyrical and urgent'- The Times
'Brilliant,highly intelligent,fiercely personal... Gorgeous'- Ursula K. Le Guin
'Byatt has made... an entire world,compressed but energetically alive in all its details. When we have artists like this,who needs gods'- Observer
'Byatt's prose is majestic,the lush descriptive passages - jewelled one minute,gory the next - a pleasure to get lost in'- Sunday Telegraph
'Byatt's prose,compact and lyrical,treats the gods with dignity... Ragnarok is a clever,lucid,lovely book'- Guardian
'Surely among the most beautiful and incisive pages Byatt has ever written'- Independent
A. S. Byatt
Dame Antonia Susan Duffy,DBE,also known as A.S. Byatt,is an internationally renowned English author.
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