Sooner or later, history asks, which side were you on?In his powerful new novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil WarHer marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history-culpable regardless of her intentions. The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond, Virginia, and travel south on their own, now fugitives with "bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit." Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman's tragic life, and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.
Inman leaves the horrors of the American Civil War and begins a long, dangerous journey home to Ada, the woman he loves. Along the way, he witnesses great poverty, cruelty, and violence. Will he ever see Ada again? And if he does, will she recognize the man he has become?
A soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. Whilst Ada struggles to make a living from the land. Neither knows if the other is still alive.
Monte frío es más que la historia de un desertor que va a reunirse con la mujer a la que, sin apenas conocer, ama. Es una intensa y en absoluto convencional historia de amor, es una hilarante novela picaresca, por la que deambula una galeria de personajes grotestos y disparatados; es una historia increible que, ademas de su evidente pacifismo, contiene serias opciones morales; es un apasionante relato de aventuras; es una gran odisea epica que trasciende lo anecdotico de una epoca y de un paisaje.
A wounded soldier travels home acros America during the Civil War. Will his difficult journey take him back to the women he loves? This poetic tale is now a major film staring Jude Law, Nicole Kidman
Based on stories in the author's family, this novel is about a wounded Civil War soldier who walks away from the hospital and finds his arduous way home to his sweetheart--a cultured young woman who has been forced to learn the brutal ways of farm life. The stories of the two lovers are intertwined; when they converge, they find that their worlds have changed radically, and so have they. Winner of the 1997 National Book Award for fiction.
Inman har blitt skadet i den amerikanske borgerkrigen, og han begynner den farlige ferden tilbake til Cold Mountain, og til Ada, kvinnen han elsket fr krigen startet. Mens Inman er p vei gjennom de herjede Srstatene, kjemper Ada for klare seg p grden hennes far har etterlatt henne. Ingen av dem vet om den andre fremdeles er i live. Historien har bakgrunn i den virkelige fortellingen om W.P.
Monte Frío es más que la historia de un desertor que va a reunirse con la mujer a la que, sin apenas conocerla, ama. Es una intensa y en absoluto convencional historia de amor; esuna hilarante novela picaresca, por la que deambula una galeria de personajes grotescos y disparatados; es una historia de ficcion que, ademas del evidente pacifismo, contiene serias opciones morales, es un apasionante relato de aventuras; es una gran odisea epica, que trasciende en todo momento lo anecdotico de una epoca y de un paisaje. Y es, por consiguiente una novela excepcional.
Set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, this is the story of a wounded soldier, Inman, who escapes the army and tries to make his way home to Cold Mountain and to Ada, the woman he left b
At the age of twelve, under the Wind Moon, Will is given a horse, a key, and a map, and sent alone into the Indian Nation to run a trading post as a bound boy. It is during this time that he grows into a man, learning, as he does, of the raw power it takes to create a life, to find a home. In a card game with a white Indian named Featherstone, Will wins -- for a brief moment -- a mysterious girl named Claire, and his passion and desire for her spans this novel. As Will's destiny intertwines with the fate of the Cherokee Indians, including a Cherokee Chief named Bear, he learns how to fight and survive in the face of both nature and men, and eventually, under the Corn Tassle Moon, Will begins the fight against Washington City to preserve the Cherokee's homeland and culture. And he will come to know the truth behind his belief that 'only desire trumps time'. Brilliantly imagined, written with great power and beauty by a master of American fiction, Thirteen Moons is a stunning novel about a man's passion for a woman, and how loss, longing and love can shape a man's destiny over the many moons of a life.
