A.s. ByattVezi magazinul LibrisAs the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside.
Struggling to make sense of her new wartime life, she is given a copy of a book of ancient Norse myths and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.
Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, Byatt's mesmerising tale - inspired by the myth of Ragnarok -is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.
The Myths series brings together some of the world's finest writers, each of whom has retold a myth in a contemporary and memorable way.
Authors in the series include Karen Armstrong, Margaret Atwood, A.
Byatt, David Grossman, Natsuo Kirino, Alexander McCall Smith, Philip Pullman, Ali Smith and Jeanette Winterson.
