Roy Jacobsen - The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles
| Conditie | goed |
| Aantal pagina`s | 200 |
| Uitgavejaar | 2007 |
| Uitgegeven door | John Murray |
| Kaft | hardcover met zilveropdruk op de rug |
| Stofomslag | ja |
| ISBN | 9780719520921 |
| Code [intern] | WEG 3-F |
Beschrijving boek
1939. A winter in Finland so deadly people called it the white hell.
The inhabitants of a small town burn their cherished homes and, with them, their history, as they flee invading Russian troops. But one man refuses to leave: a simple woodsman with an extraordinary instinct for survival.
Set against a landscape of light and darkness, blazing fires and life-robbing cold, The Burnt-Out Town of Miracles is a tale of cowards and unexpected heroes, of powerful friendships, lives bound together by war, where nothing matters more than finding the path back home.
My town was set ablaze on 7 December, after all four thousand inhabitants had been evacuated, except for me. I was born here, had lived here all my life and couldn’t imagine living anywhere else … There is always one, at least one, who doesn’t follow the crowd, he doesn’t even need to know why, and here in Suomussalmi it was me.
