New Releases by Charles Frazier

De koude berg. - Na zwaar gewond te zijn geraakt in de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog deserteert een soldaat en begint aan de lange, gevaarlijke thuisreis naar North Carolina.

De blauwe bergen. - Na zwaar gewond te zijn geraakt in de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog, deserteert een soldaat en begint aan de lange, gevaarlijke thuisreis naar North Carolina.

A la fin de la guerre de Sécession, Inman, un soldat sudiste blessé à la bataille de Petersburg, déserte pour retrouver Ada, la femme qu''il aime. En chemin, il traverse les paysages dévastés des Etats confédérés, tandis qu''Ada essaie tant bien que mal de survivre dans les montagnes de Caroline du Nord.

The impact of the Civil War on lovers. Inman is not the man he used to be, as wounded in battle he slowly makes his way home to North Carolina. His sweetheart, Ada, too has changed, no longer a flighty belle but a hard-working farm woman. Will love be the same?

A wounded Civil War soldier''s journey home to his sweetheart.

A Guerra Civil americana (1861-65) é a força fragmentadora e trágica que interfere nas vidas dos principais personagens de ''Montanha Gelada'' - revelação literária americana, com 1 milhão e meio de exemplares vendidos. Resultado de 8 anos de pesquisas e de uma escrita meticulosa e inspirada, o livro coloca em cena uma impressionante odisséia americana do século passado - a do guerreiro que volta as costas para os horrores e absurdos de uma guerra civil e topa com mil perigos e deslumbramentos em seu dramático retorno ao lar e ao grande amor de sua vida.

One of the most acclaimed first novels in recent memory, Charles Frazier''s Cold Mountain is a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished America -- a country where savagery coexists with splendor and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the lighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, Ada is trying to revive her father''s derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away. As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic American Odyssey -- hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving. "Charles Frazier''s feeling for the Southern landscape is reverential and beautifully composed. He has written an astonishing first novel". -- Alfred Kazin, The New York Review of Books "Extraordinary... A Whitmanesque foray into America: into its hugeness, its freshness into America: into its hugeness, its freshness its scope and its soul". -- The New York Times Book Review "A great read -- a stirring Civil War tale told with epic sweep". -- People "Strikingly beautiful... In its vivid evocation of a time and place, its steady story-telling momentum and its unabashed affirmation of a fiction that takes moral choice seriously, Cold Mountain calls to mind SnowFalling on Cedars". -- Newsday "Heartbreakingly beautiful...elegantly told...down to the last haunting detail". -- John Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil "Astonishing...a genuinely romantic saga that attains the status of literature". -- Newsweek

This fast-paced tale set mostly in the last weeks of the American Civil War tells of a soldier and his sweetheart and their efforts to reunite. Inman, the soldier, is wounded, and as he slowly walks away from the ravages of war he travels through a devastated land. He does meet his sweetheart, Ada, but their lives have been forever transformed. 1997.

Der junge Inman erlebt den Sezessionskrieg als grauenhaft und sinnlos. Er desertiert und begibt sich auf den gefährlichen Weg nach Hause zu seiner grossen Liebe Ada. Seine Reise führt ihn durch ein von Zerstörung gezeichnetes Land.

Na zwaar gewond te zijn geraakt in de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog deserteert een soldaat en begint aan de lange, gevaarlijke thuisreis naar North Carolina.

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