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Winter's Daughter: The Saying of Signe Ragnhilds-Datter

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This book, despite the rather silly cover, is very close to being a masterpiece. I wasn't quite sure what to think of its attempt to tell a mythic tale of survival in Africa, America, and Norway after a nuclear war but as soon as i started reading it I found myself completely engrossed. The whole thing is written in a unique collquial dialect that i found to be incredibly entertaining. Its hard to describe the qualities that make up Winter's Daughter--it is an adventure story, a keen look into psychology, philosophy and religion, politics, war--the scope of this novel is breathtaking. High schools should teach this book instead of Nathanial Hawthorne, who could bore a statue to sleep! I don't know what Charles Whitmore is doing these days but he accomplished something quite powerful and memorable with his first novel. I am going to recommend this to a lot of people and I am going to give it as a gift to my own daughter.