Wassmo, Herbjørg: DINA’S BOOK. The Magical European Bestseller

Author: Wassmo, Herbjørg
Country: Great Britain
Language: English
Year Published: 1996
No. of pages: 526
Illustrations: 0 Color Illustrations. 1 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Softbound
Size: 8”x 5”
Weight: 1.00
ISBN: 552996734
Biblio/Bio: Cat. of exh. Bio.
Code: 5604

Price: $9.50

Set in19th-century Norway, this novel tells the story of a beautiful, eccentric, and unpredictable woman who bewitches everyone she meets. At the age of five, Dina unwittingly causes her mother’s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. Her guilt becomes her obsession; her unforgiving mother haunts her every day. When she returns home, it is only Dina’s tutor who can tame her by reaching her through music. Married off at sixteen to a wealthy landowner, Jacob dies under odd circumstances and Dina - after a period of trauma during which she is mute - runs his estate with an iron hand. But she still wrestles with the unappeased ghosts of both Jacob and her mother, until one day a mysterious stranger - a Russian wanderer - enters her life.