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Ragnarok is the story of the end of the world. It is a tale of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves: what more relevant myth could any modern writer choose? As the bombs rain down in the Second World War, one young girl is evacuated to the English countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods - a book of ancient Norse myths - and her inner and outer worlds are transformed. War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the destruction of life on this planet are just some of the threads that A.S. Byatt weaves into this most timely of books. Just as Wagner borrowed from this dramatic Norse saga for the climax of the Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt reinvents it for our time in all its intensity and glory. Linguistically stunning and imaginatively abundant, this is a landmark piece of storytelling from one of the world's truly great writers.

About the Author :
A.S. Byatt is the author of fifteen works of fiction including the Booker Prize-winning Possession, The Biographer's Tale and, most recently, the Man Booker-shortlisted The Children's Book. A distinguished critic as well as a writer of fiction, A.S. Byatt was appointed CBE in 1990 and DBE in 1999.

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* Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages - jeweled one minute, gory the next - a pleasure to get lost in Sunday Telegraph * Byatt paints beautiful and fantastic word-pictures, glittering verbal special effects -- Allan Massie Scotsman * Colour and sensation flood Byatt's writing ... One of the most brilliant minds and speakers of our generation. Independent * Byatt's prose, compact and lyrical, treats [the gods] with dignity...Ragnarok is a clever, lucid, lovely book -- M. John Harrison Guardian * Thanks to a rare fusion of imagination and intellect, sensual poetry and cerebral prose, youthful joy and elderly wisdom [,Byatt has made]...an entire world, compressed but energetically alive in all its details. When we have artists like this, who needs gods? -- Peter Conrad Observer * Byatt peels back the cover of the book that the girl reads and takes us deep inside it as she delights in reimagining the twilight of the gods and the destruction of the world. ... Like Wagner before her, [she] dares to dream how the world might end ... this rewriting of the Ragnarok is a story for our time of overpopulation and anthropomorphic climate change, and of all time Financial Times * Surely among the most beautiful and incisive [pages] Byatt has ever written Independent * Byatt's retelling of Ragnarok is permeated with the loving familiarity of long acquaintance. Her language is lapidary. The terrible archness that can infest the narratives of sophisticated writers who attempt to master myth is resoundingly absent. ... It is pleasant to imagine some lonely, bookish child discovering it and becoming entranced -- Jane Shilling Evening Standard * A brilliant, highly intelligent, fiercely personal rendition of the Scandinavian mythology...a gorgeous enrichment and interpretation -- Ursula K. Le Guin Literary Review * Byatt's writing, impassioned and liberated from the strictures of the novel, has never been so beautiful Telegraph * Byatt's prose is majestic, the lush descriptive passages - jeweled one minute, gory the next - a pleasure to get lost in. Sunday Telegraph * In her addition to Canongate's series of "Myths", Byatt dramatically retells Nordic legends of the twilight of the gods. Independent * Energy and power drip from Byatt's writing. ... There are too many glittering sentences to quote here in full. New Humanist


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781847678430
  • Publisher: Canongate Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Canongate Books
  • Height: 214 mm
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Weight: 217 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1847678432
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: the End of the Gods
  • Width: 135 mm


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