Birdie élève seule sa fille de deux ans, Emaleen, en Alaska.Un jour où la fillette se perd dans les bois, elle est secourue par Arthur, un homme taciturne qui vit en ermite dans une cabane et que la plupart des gens évitent. En dépit des avertissements, Birdie décide de s’installer avec sa fille chez Arthur. Mais peu à peu, Arthur adopte un comportement étrange : il disparaît sans prévenir, ne revient parfois pas avant plusieurs jours. Birdie comprend alors qu’un so...

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.'A story about finding love in unexpected places... full of fire and ice' Financial Times'A magical, heartbreaking story' Marie Claire'Stunning' The TimesAlaska, the 1920s. Ja...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Snow Child returns to the mythical landscapes of Alaska with an unforgettable dark fairy tale that asks the question: Can love save us from ourselves?“No one writes like Eowyn Ivey.”—Geraldine Brooks“You will find yourself in places you have never been.”—Louise Erdrich“Ivey is an enthralling storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review**AN NPR AND SEATTLE TIMES

**Where there is wonder, there is love - an unforgettable story of the beauty and savagery of the Alaskan wilderness, from the author of the million-copy international bestseller, The Snow Child.'I read with my heart in my mouth, filled with wonder' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry'An enthralling novel about the endurance of love, the power of forgiveness and the savage, irresistible allure of wild places' Paula Hawkins, author ...

Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller 2012, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century, sure to appeal to fans of A PLACE CALLED WINTER.*****NOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017*'A clever...

Each year of their long marriage, Walt and Millie have spent a month apart, as Walt heads out to hunt bear and moose in the pristine Alaskan wilderness, and Millie takes to the concert stage to perform. Their letters, picked up and delivered by a bush pilot each week, keep them close. Now in his seventy-sixth year, Walt realises his hunting days may soon be over, and there is a black bear prowling around his camp. Will Millie ever receive the crumpled letter Walt keeps in his pocket?

Depuis qu’ils ont perdu leur bébé, Mabel et Jack ne sont plus tout à fait les mêmes.Pris à la gorge par la douleur, ils décident de tous plaquer et partent s’installer au coeur des solitudes glacées de l’Alaska. Une nouvelle vie s’offre à eux. Mais rien n’apaise vraiment la souffrance qui les assaille toujours par vagues successives. Jusqu’au jour où ils sculptent un bonhomme dans la neige. Le soir même, une petite fille apparaît devant leur cabane, talonnée par un renard roux....

Un cuento de hadas moderno ambientado en los bosques de Alaska. Inspirado en la leyenda rusa de Snegurochka, la Doncella de las Nieves. Finalista del Pulitzer. Alaska, 1920. Jack y Mabel, una pareja ya mayor perseguida por el fantasma de la muerte de su hijo, decide escapar de la ciudad y establecerse como pionera en pleno bosque alaskiano. Pero los comienzos no son nada fáciles en esa tierra de inviernos interminables que se resiste a ser cosechada. Entonces un día llega la primera nevada...

Birdie es una joven madre soltera que trabaja como camarera en un hostal de carretera de Alaska. Su pequeña Emaleen se cría entre las mesas del bar y el bosque de enfrente, donde está su cabaña, con el apoyo de los vecinos y con su inseparable Thimblina, su amiga-libélula-hada imaginaria. Birdie adora a su hija, pero también le abruma su falta de libertad: para divertirse, para irse a pescar un día entero sola o para huir de su extenuante trabajo. Entonces un día aparece Arthur Neilsen en ...

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.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 m...

A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, The Snow Child was a bestseller on hardback publication, and went on to establish itself as one of the key literary debuts of 2012, and was a Richard and Judy Bookclub pick.Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wilderness is a stark place, and Mabel is haunted by the baby she lost many years before. When a little girl appears mysteriously on thei...

1920-luvun Alaskaan sijoittuva lukuromaani Lumilapsi on lumoava kuin talven ensilumi.Alaska on julma paikka asua ja elää. Sen tietävät Jack ja Mabel, lapsettomuuttaan sureva uudisasukaspariskunta. He ovat ajautumassa erilleen - Jack raataa maatilalla perheen elatuksen vuoksi ja Mabel taistelee yksinäisyyttä ja epätoivoa vastaan. Ensilumen sataessa pitkän ja kylmän syksyn jälkeen hetkellinen ilo ja toivo saa heidät rakentamaan lumesta lapsen. Aamulla lumilapsi on poissa, mutta puide...