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Chargement... Winter Garden (original 2010; édition 2010)par Kristin Hannah
Information sur l'oeuvreWinter Garden par Kristin Hannah (2010)
  
Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  indygo88 | Feb 18, 2024 |   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. (  ) Spiritrider1101 | Jan 18, 2024 | ) simonamitac | Nov 27, 2023 |  ) SharronA | Jun 1, 2023 | ) BarbOak | May 1, 2023 |
 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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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.95)
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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. (