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Chargement... Winter Garden (original 2010; édition 2010)par Kristin Hannah (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreWinter Garden par Kristin Hannah (2010)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Sisters Meredith and Nina have grown up within somewhat non-traditional parental dynamics. Their father is warm and loving, their mother cold and standoffish. Though the sisters were somewhat close in childhood, they've grown apart as adults and live totally separate lives: Meredith staying near home to help run the family business, and Nina working as a photographer traveling the world. When their father becomes ill, Nina returns home and as he lays dying, her father asks his wife to finish "the fairytale" -- the story she told them as children but never finished, about a young girl falling in love in Russia. I'm still trying to figure out how I feel about this one. I tend to prefer the writing of Kristin Hannah's newer novels to those of her older ones, and this one falls somewhere in the middle. As a lot of readers have noted, the second half of this novel is much more compelling than the first half. It's a tear-jerker, though I didn't feel the character development was the greatest. Some aspects were predictable and some were a little unbelievable (primarily with the characterization), with an ending that was wrapped up a little too neatly for my liking. But the historical side of this story was compelling and is what carried this novel. What a heartbreaking and inspirational story I thought this book was slow at first. Please continue reading! it is a beautiful story of hardships, courage and loss. It shows you the power of a women and protecting her children. It includex all the terrible things that happened in Russia during the war. This story will stay with me. Another Kristin Hannah book that broke my heart and made me enjoy it so much. With every book of hers I am traveling a little bit in time, and this time was Petersburg, Russia. It is a lot to process after reading this story, but as always, was beautifully written and will stay with me for a while, like all her books so far.
Resisting the urge to skip ahead so I could find out what happens was a serious problem with this novel. Even though there are a number of stories told in this novel; Meredith's struggles with her marriage, Nina's struggles with love and family, Anya's struggles with her past, and Veronika's story in Russia, everything flows so smoothly. What starts out as a story of three struggling women turns into a beautiful story... one that literally brough tears to my eyes. I found that this book allowed me to laugh, cry, yell and hurt and a book that does that is a very powerful book. Overall, this book needs to be read... it deserves a place on anyone's bookshelf! Well done Kristin Hannah, I will be reading many more of your books in the future! For this reader, it doesn't work. The Whitson family is rocked by the sudden death of patriarch Evan, a warm, loving man who doted on his two adult daughters, Meredith and Nina, and his reserved Russian wife, Anya. Meredith, who runs the family business, and Nina, a photojournalist whose job takes her to war zones around the world, have never been able to connect with their cold, forbidding mother. When Anya begins to act strangely, Meredith thinks she belongs in a nursing home, but Nina decides to try to fulfill her father's dying wish and get her mother to tell her and Meredith the elaborate fairy tales she used to share with them. Anya is initially reluctant, but once she begins, Nina realizes these tales are actually the story of Anya's life in Stalinist Leningrad. Meredith and Nina decide to attempt to uncover the truth about their mother's tragic past in the hope of understanding her, and themselves. Est contenu dansEst en version abrégée dansPrix et récompensesDistinctions
The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Like Nightingale, Winter Garden includes a historical and modern day story (a two-fer, as my GR friend Cathrine calls it!). The historical tale is by far the better story here, and thankfully takes up the majority of the book.
There are about a million reviews of this book, so I won't summarize the plot. All I will add is that this book has me wanting to learn more about the Siege of Leningrad. And, to recommend the most excellent [b:City of Thieves|1971304|City of Thieves|David Benioff|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1392015757s/1971304.jpg|1974537] to anyone else interested in that period of history. ( )