Find books like the snow child from the worlds largest community of readers. Faina, the snow child, what a perfect and wonderful name, is an amazing creation, ethereal, delicate, fragile, yet clearly beautiful, strong and very resourceful, a wild child. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in londons. I read it on a friends kindle and immediately bought the book. Stephen nowersreagan arthur books the childs name is faina, and she brings hope and new passion to the marriage of mabel and jack. Iveys book more closely follows ransomes version, which also plays. In the morning, the snow child is gone, but, in a way eerily mirrors a muchloved fairy tale, the couple spies a.
Eowyn iveys novel plays out a traditional russian tale the snow maiden, or snegurochka in the harsh yet beautiful world of 1920s alaska. Its charm is upheld by the characters, the relationships, and the sad, cold mood that seems to permeate the entire novel from open to close. A stunning and startling adult novel, full of wonder, longing, hope, pain and beauty. Without getting into plot points, i will just say that this novel, which. She is the author of the new york times bestseller the snow child. This little girl, who calls herself faina, seems to be a child of the woods. Her career has taken her from writing pages of the frontiersman newspaper, to writing novels and selling books in between. Goodreads members who liked the snow child also liked. The snow child is based on a russian fairy tale, snegurochka.
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