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Dina's Book (Dina #1)

Herbjørg Wassmo

Paperback | Pages: 527 pages

Rating: 4.04 | 2792 Users | 125 Reviews

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Original Title:	Dinas bok
ISBN:	0552996734 (ISBN13: 9780552996730)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Dina #1

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On the scale of Gone with the Wind and War and Peace, this grand, sweeping epic will enthrall readers just as Dina bewitches everyone she meets.

Set in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century, Dina's Book presents an extraordinary heroine. Beautiful, eccentric, and tempestuous, Dina carries a terrible burden: at the age of five she accidentally causes her mother's death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. Nobody leads the child through her grief, and the accident remains a gruesome riddle of death. Her guilt becomes her obsession: her unforgiving mother haunts her every day.

After several years of exile, and at the insistence of the local pastor, her father takes Dina back. By now she has become like a wolf cub. Her father has remarried, to a younger woman whom she detests, and a strict discipline begins. A tutor is brought in; coarse language is replaced by polite conversation, climbing to the top of the trees by music. But the efforts have little effect. Private and closely guarded, Dina nonetheless is able to manipulate those around her, while her unconventional behavior and erotic power both enchant and ensnare.

At sixteen Dina is married off to wealthy fifty-year-old landowner Jacob, a friend of her father who has fallen completely under her spell. Jacob dies under mysterious circumstances, and Dina becomes mute. When finally she emerges from her trauma, she runs Jacob's estate with an iron hand. But still Dina wrestles with her two unappeased ghosts: Jacob and her mother. Until one day a mysterious stranger, the Russian wanderer Leo, enters her life and changes it forever.

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Title	:	Dina's Book (Dina #1)
Author	:	Herbjørg Wassmo
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 527 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1996 by Black Swan (first published 1989)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature

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Ratings: 4.04 From 2792 Users | 125 Reviews

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This was an epic read. I was drawn into the story from the first page. The characters were developed and interesting. There were constant moral dilemmas that were handled in several ways. It surprised me at every chapter, especially the ending. The setting was vivid and authentic.

Wassmo has a beautifull writing style especially in the original way she describes the thoughts and actions of her characters. Her amazing flawed characters is another positive thing in this book. I have finished the book, but I keep thinking about why characters, especially Dina, did certain things in the book. I won't say what because that would be a spoiler. I am very happy I bought this book in a libary sale because I do not know if I would have read it otherwise.The setting of this book

Wow!

The story of Dina is as ferocious as its heroine. The story's set in 19th century Norway when the role of the woman was vastly different from today's women in the same country. Even Ibsen's Nora pales next to the independence of Dina, who can run a household and estate, wrap men around every finger of her both hands, and expose injustice and dishonesty wherever she goes. For a woman -- and human -- Dina is like a force of nature, and she feels incredibly real through the pages of a mere book

This is a difficult book to review. Took me a while to finish it. The story is interesting and the descriptions of the places make me long to go back to Norway. But: the language used and the writing was not entirely to my liking. I don't know if it was the Dutch translation, but something about it kept me from reading it for more than a few hours at a time. Hope I'll find the second one in the trilogy in an English translation, or better, the original Norwegian one.

This is a dramatic story about Dina, who at the age of 5 inadvertently causes a vat of hot lye to engulf her mother, causing her excruciating death. Dina is then neglected by her father, a sheriff, who doesnt know what to do with her, and spends her life haunted by her mothers screams and ghostly presence. While Dinas in her early teens, her father finds a tutor for her whos a bit of a godsend, teaching her arithmetic and music. He also learns about the tragedy, and tells the girl her mother is

I have finished this book. I did wonder why I was reading it at times but it also had a compulsive element - which is probably why I was reading it. The end was very cryptic and it felt either that all the strands came together or the opposite - that it just raised a whole lot of other issues that if it was the end of a TV series you would want to know that they were going to make another one. I wasn't satisfied I'm afraid. I would be interested in hearing other people's comments on this book.