The Linden's Red Plague - Chamberlin, Ann

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Résumé :
The saga of the Choosers of the Slain continues. Odin the One-Eyed Wanderer has dismissed Brynhild from the sisterhood of the Valkyries for disobedience. Stabbing her with the sleep-thorn, he condemns her to sleep until sons are sires and a man comes who will be her equal. But if she loses her maidenhood, she will lose both her magical youth and her strength. Brynhild opens her eyes in a strange, icy land to see Siegfried, a man who seems half-God himself. If he is a sending of Odin, does Siegfried's outstretched hand mean a hopeful future? Or divine revenge?...

Biographie:
Born and raised in Salt Lake City, Ann Chamberlin also spent big blocks of time as a child in Europe where her father was visiting professor of mathematics, including two years as a teenager in Germany. Ann is the author of twenty books, mostly historical novels, many set in the Middle East, including a trilogy set in sixteenth-century Turkey. This trilogy, in translation, spent almost a year on the Turkish bestseller list. Her most recent publication is a memoir, CLOGS AND SHAWLS, about her grandmother's girlhood in Yorkshire, England. She has also written many plays, including JIHAD, which won the best off-off Broadway new play of 1996 and which received a production in Bogota, Colombia at a conference for theatre women for peace.

Sommaire:
The saga of the Choosers of the Slain continues. Odin the One-Eyed Wanderer has dismissed Brynhild from the sisterhood of the Valkyries for disobedience. Stabbing her with the sleep-thorn, he condemns her to sleep until sons are sires and a man comes who will be her equal. But if she loses her maidenhood, she will lose both her magical youth and her strength. Brynhild opens her eyes in a strange, icy land to see Siegfried, a man who seems half-God himself. If he is a sending of Odin, does Siegfried's outstretched hand mean a hopeful future? Or divine revenge?...