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The Snow Child

Eowyn Ivey

Kindle Edition | Pages: 404 pages

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Original Title:	The Snow Child ASIN B004RD856M
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Mabel, Jack, Snegurochka
Setting:	Alaska(United States)
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for Fiction (2013), Indies Choice Book Award for Adult Debut (2013), Tähtifantasia Award Nominee (2014), The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee (2012), Specsavers National Book Award for International Author of the Year (2012) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2012)

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Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

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Title	:	The Snow Child
Author	:	Eowyn Ivey
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 404 pages
Published	:	February 1st 2012 by Reagan Arthur Books
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fantasy. Magical Realism. Fairy Tales. Adult

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A beautiful, magic-tinged tale of an aging couple, the bleak Alaskan wilderness and a child who appears one day in the wood.Mabel and Jack always wanted a child, but after suffering a miscarriage, they begin to lose hope of ever conceiving. Mabel suffers in female society without a child of her own.She begs Jack to take her to Alaska for a fresh start. He agrees. But it doesn't work.The weather is dark and freezing. The ground is hard and takes more effort than Jack can give. They aren't

The Snow Child is based on an ancient Russian fairy tale, and like any good fairy tale, it touches the edges between what is real and what is imagined. Eowyn Ivey commands the language in such a beautiful, moving way, that it would almost not matter if the story was not spectacular. But, never fear, she couples all that almost poetic language with a story that is moving and captivating and mysterious. This is the kind of magical realism I can buy into. It is like good slight of hand, you cannot

"It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scouted you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all."What a beautiful, harsh and wintry tale! An odd pick for me to read in June/July but I felt like I was right there in deepest Alaska, with the powerful landscapes and dark winters. Mabel and Jack have never been able to have children, since they had a still born baby. Escaping their grief and the stares of those around them, they move to

Poor Eowyn Ivey. Well, not literally. This novel probably secures her pension annuity better than anyone elses. Its Big (both novel, hence, pension). But if she is the woman I suspect she is, shes likely twisting and turning at night over how she botched a masterpiece and brought a spectacular turn to heel.Of course any reference to masterpiece is biased. One mans meat and anothers poison applies. But. There is something, something, about screwing around with childhood folklore, which guarantees

No warm blood in me doth glow,Water in my veins doth flow;Yet Ill laugh and sing and playBy frosty night and frosty dayLittle daughter of the Snow.But whenever I do knowThat you love me little, thenI shall melt away again.Back into the sky Ill goLittle daughter of the Snow. - An extract from Little Daughter of the Snow by Arthur Ransome.You can read the short story here.This book... it's a dream. An unhurried, ethereal, captivating dream - so captivating, that I cleared out my currently-reading

to take every bit of pleasure from that moment, knowing it might not last. The Snow Child was a book club selection. I am not sure I would have picked it up on my own.Without getting into plot points, I will just say that this novel, which begins in 1920 Alaska, is a fine example of magical realism. The author, Eowyn Ivey, does such a nice job jumping between these two elements that when she seamlessly combines them from time to time the reader finds themselves captured, in its grip, and not at

It's truly gratifying to come across a book that evokes the senses to such a degree that its flavor is brought to the palate. Such is the case with Eowyn Ivey's debut novel, The Snow Child. Infused with aspects of pine boughs, mountain herbs, woolen mittens and inspired by happenstance, it breathes new life into an old Russian children's tale Ivey stumbled upon in her bookstore.We come to know of aging Jack and Mabel through their childless sorrows, playful intense love and survivalist fortitude