Eowyn Ivey

Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

A Novel

The Snow Child

An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return--once he passes beyond the edge of the known world, there's no telling what awaits him. The Wolverine River Valley is not only breathtaking and forbidding but also terrifying in ways that the colonel and his men never could have imagined. As they map the territory and gather information on the native tribes, whose understanding of the natural world is unlike anything they have ever encountered, Forrester and his men discover the blurred lines between human and wild animal, the living and the dead. And while the men knew they would face starvation and danger, they cannot escape the sense that some greater, mysterious force threatens their lives. Meanwhile, on her own at Vancouver Barracks, Sophie chafes under the social restrictions and yearns to travel alongside her husband. She does not know that the winter will require as much of her as it does her husband, that both her courage and faith will be tested to the breaking point. Can her exploration of nature through the new art of photography help her to rediscover her sense of beauty and wonder? The truths that Allen and Sophie discover over the course of that fateful year change both of their lives--and the lives of those who hear their stories long after they're gone--forever.

To the Bright Edge of the World

Set again in the Alaskan landscape that she bought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD, Eowyn Ivey's new novel is a breathtaking story of discovery and adventure, set at the end of the nineteenth century, and of a marriage tested by a closely held secret. Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its huge reserves of gold to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. For Forrester, the decision to accept this mission is even more difficult, as he is only recently married to Sophie, the wife he had perhaps never expected to find. Sophie is pregnant with their first child, and does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband embarks upon the journey of a lifetime. She has genuine cause to worry about her pregnancy, and it is with deep uncertainty about what their future holds that she and her husband part. A story shot through with a darker but potent strand of the magic that illuminated THE SNOW CHILD, and with the sweep and insight that characterised Rose Tremain's The Colour, this new novel from Pulitzer Prize finalist Eowyn Ivey singles her out as a major literary talent.

Shadows on the Wolverine

Each year of their long marriage, Walt and Millie have spent a month apart, as Walt heads out to hunt bear and moose in the pristine Alaskan wilderness, and Millie takes to the concert stage to perform. Their letters, picked up and delivered by a bush pilot each week, keep them close. Now in his seventy-sixth year, Walt realises his hunting days may soon be over, and there is a black bear prowling around his camp. Will Millie ever receive the crumpled letter Walt keeps in his pocket?

Last Days in Hunting Camp

Black Woods, Blue Sky is a suspenseful novel that explores the bond between a mother and daughter, and the allure of the wild. Part dark romance and part outdoor adventure, the story is infused with folklore, mysticism, and fairy tales. Published in February 2025, the book is a New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize finalist. The story explores life-and-death stakes, and the love between a mother and daughter. It also delves into the allure of a wild life.

Black Woods, Blue Sky

A childless couple working a farm in the brutal landscape of 1920 Alaska discovers a little girl living in the wilderness and begins to love the strange, almost-supernatural child as their own.

Roman

Das Schneemädchen

román

Dcera sněhu

La niña de nieve

La bambina di neve

Paulo Polzonoff Junior

Alasca, 1920: Um lugar especialmente difícil para os recém-chegados Jack e Mabel. Sem filhos, eles estão se afastando um do outro cada vez mais - ele, no duro trabalho da fazenda, ela, se perdendo na solidão e no desespero. Em um dos raros momentos juntos durante a primeira nevasca da temporada, eles fazem uma criança de neve. Na manhã seguinte, ela simplesmente desaparece. Jack e Mabel avistam uma menina loira correndo por entre as árvores, mas a criança não é comum. Ela caça com uma raposa-vermelha ao lado e, de alguma forma, consegue sobreviver sozinha no rigoroso inverno do Alasca. Enquanto o casal se esforça para entendê-la - uma criança que poderia ter saído das páginas de um conto de fadas -, eles começam a amá-la como se ela fosse filha deles. No entanto, nesse lugar bonito e sombrio, as coisas raramente são como aparentam ser, e o que aprendem sobre essa misteriosa menina vai transformar a vida de todos eles.

A Menina Da Neve

Snežno dete

Copila de zǎpadǎ

Een kinderloos echtpaar ontmoet in het Alaska van rond 1920 een weesmeisje dat zich meer thuis voelt in het winterse bos dan in een warm huis.

Kind van de sneeuw / druk 1

Una historia conmovedora sobre el amor, la ilusión, las segundas oportunidades y la capacidad de creer, ambientada en los silenciosos bosques nevados de Alaska, un país tan bello como duro, tan desafiante como inspirador. Jack y Mabel han viajado hasta Alaska, ese paisaje hermoso y extremo de inviernos crudos y veranos bañados en luz, dispuestos a iniciar una nueva vida. Lejos de parientes y amigos; lejos de la tumba de su único hijo, que murió al nacer. Pero las cosas no son fáciles en la agreste Alaska y un año después Mabel se enfrenta al inminente invierno, sin saber si podrá soportar los largos meses de nieve y silencio que la acechan desde las cumbres. Jack, por su parte, se siente derrotado por esa tierra hostil que labra penosamente y que no concede nada sin esfuerzo. Ambos están a punto de renunciar a su sueño. Una vez más, la vida parece haberlos vencido# Hasta que una noche, maravillados ante la primera nevada del año, Jack y Mabel se olvidan de sus problemas y hacen un muñeco de nieve al que visten con una bufanda y unos guantes de lana. A la mañana siguiente, el muñeco se ha fundido, las prendas de ropa han desaparecido y en la nieve pueden verse unas diminutas pisadas que se internan en el bosque. Pertenecen a Faina, una niña esquiva y misteriosa que aparece y desaparece con las estaciones. Faina es capaz de sobrevivir en las montañas con la única compañía de un zorro de dientes afilados al que ha convertido en su mascota. Para Jack y Mabel la aparición de la niña cambia su vida, puesto que no tarda en convertirse en la hija que nunca tuvieron. Pero, como sucedía en un cuento de hadas que Mabel leía en su infancia, esa niña salvaje parece ahogarse con el calor del hogar...

Copila de zăpadă

Winter, 1885. Lieutenant Allen Forrester erhält den Auftrag seines Lebens: Er soll im Namen der US-Armee den Wolverine River in Alaska erforschen. Seine Expedition verspricht endlich Erkenntnisse über diesen geheimnisvollen, unerforschten Landstrich, doch niemand vermag vorauszusehen, was Allen und seine Männer dort erwartet. Seine junge Frau Sophie lässt Allen in Vancouver zurück – sie ist schwanger. Leidenschaftlich gern hätte die Naturkundlerin ihren Mann in die Wildnis begleitet. Was sie jedoch nicht ahnt: Die Zeit der Trennung wird ihr ebenso viel Mut abfordern wie ihrem Ehemann. Ein Roman über eine abenteuerliche historische Expedition, eine tiefe Liebe zwischen zwei Forschernaturen und die Geheimnisse einer ungezähmten, spektakulären Natur.

Das Leuchten am Rand der Welt

L'Alaska, ses forêts impénétrables, ses étendues enneigées. Son silence. Sa solitude. Depuis la mort de leur bébé, le mariage de Mabel et Jack n'a plus jamais été le même. Partir vivre sur ces terres inhospitalières paraissait alors une bonne idée. Seulement, le chagrin et le désir d'enfant les ont suivis là-bas et la rudesse du climat, le travail éreintant aux champs les enferment chacun dans leur douleur. Jusqu'à ce soir de début d'hiver où, dans un moment d'insouciance, le couple sculpte un bonhomme de neige à qui ils donnent les traits d'une petite fille. Le lendemain matin, celui-ci a fondu et de minuscules empreintes de pas partent en direction de la forêt... Peu de temps après, une petite fille apparaît près de leur cabane, parfois suivie d'un renard roux tout aussi farouche qu'elle. Qui est-elle ? D'où vient-elle ? Est-elle une hallucination ou un miracle ? Et si cette petite fille était la clé de ce bonheur qu'ils n'attendaient plus ? Inspiré d'un conte traditionnel russe, La fille de l'hiver est un roman à la fois moderne et intemporel où le réalisme des descriptions n'enlève rien à la poésie d'une histoire merveilleuse... dans tous les sens du terme.

La fille de l'hiver

An exclusive chapter sampler of TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD, the new novel from the author of THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize). Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester receives the commission of a lifetime when he is charged to navigate Alaska's hitherto impassable Wolverine River, with only a small group of men. The Wolverine is the key to opening up Alaska and its rich natural resources to the outside world, but previous attempts have ended in tragedy. Forrester leaves behind his young wife, Sophie, newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have. Adventurous in spirit, Sophie does not relish the prospect of a year in a military barracks while her husband carves a path through the wilderness. What she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand every ounce of courage and fortitude of her that it does of her husband.

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