Hunters in the Snow
A European Literature, British Literature, Historical book. [3.5] With some Asterix panels as a first epigraph, followed by a quotation from Tristram Shandy, Hunters in the...
After her grandfather's death, a young woman returns to his farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. The exiled Edward IV lands in England and marches on London for one final attempt to win back the throne; Tsar Peter the Great, implausibly disguised as a carpenter, follows his own retinue around frozen London; the former African slave Olaudah Equiano takes his book-tour down a Welsh coal-mine; and Herbert, Lord Kitchener, mysteriously disappears at sea in 1916.These are the stories she remembers him telling her, and others too - about medieval miracles and EU agricultural subsidies; old people and fallen kings; homemade fireworks and invented dogs; Arctic ice cores, sunk ships, drowning horses, salt, sperm, carbon and miners. The history of great men loses its...
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- Pages: 305 pages
- ISBN: 9780224097444 / 0
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A woman goes through the papers of her historian grandfather upon his death. The narrative veers between the historical periods he was researching/writing about, the protagonist's memories and what she was doing to clear her grandfather's house and possessions. The only word I can think of to describe this book is interesting. It wasn't... [3.5] With some Asterix panels as a first epigraph, followed by a quotation from Tristram Shandy, Hunters in the Snow announces itself as a novel which plays with form.Mingling fiction and fact in the form of memoir has become commonplace recently though it can still generate both controversy and playfulness - e.g. in the hands of Karl... I thought this would be much more original and interesting than it was.I decided to finish it, mainly as it's not very long and I kept thinking soon it will engage me....I was quite bored by the story and it wasn't particularly well written.
