Ragnarok, A. S. Byatt
Ragnarok, A. S. Byatt
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Ragnarok
The End of the Gods

Author: A. S. Byatt

Narrator: Harriet Walter

Unabridged: 3 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/07/2012

Synopsis

Ragnarök retells the finale of Norse mythology. A story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. Just as Wagner used this dramatic and catastrophic struggle for the climax of his Ring Cycle, so A.S. Byatt now reinvents it in all its intensity and glory. As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the 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. How could this child know that fifty years on many of the birds and flowers she took for granted on her walks to school would become extinct? War, natural disaster, reckless gods and the recognition of impermanence in the world are just some of the threads that A.S. Byatt weaves into this most timely of books.

About A. S. Byatt

A.S. Byatt is an internationally acclaimed novelist, short-story writer, and critic. Her books include the Booker Prize–winning Possession, as well as The Children’s Book and the quartet of The Virgin in the Garden, Still Life, Babel Tower, and A Whistling Woman. She was appointed Dame of the British Empire in 1999 and has been awarded numerous prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award, and the Irish Times International Fiction Prize. She lives in London, England.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Riku on May 12, 2014

Ragnarok: The End of The Gods – A Re-view or Ragnarok: The Twilight of the Reader While the others in the Cannongate series re-imagined the stories, Byatt reread it. And then told the tale of reading it. Underwhelming? To an extent, yes. But, the Norse myths are magnificent enough to come alive of them......more

Goodreads review by Майя on May 14, 2022

Her Ragnarok The girl knew somewhere deep down-though she could not have said it–that adults live in fear of imminent disaster. The whole world they were used to was on the verge of destruction. "Ragnarok" is the story of the collapse of the world, seen through the eyes of a little girl who goes with......more

Goodreads review by Paltia on October 07, 2019

Damn all intrusions and consider yourself fortunate to get lost in this story. The thin child at war time has moved to the countryside where she learns to live in the black world of myth. As a way to make sense of the events around her she turns to reading Asgard and the gods. This fulfill her yearn......more

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