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A Woman in the Polar Night

Yazan: Christiane Ritter, Jane Degras - translator, Sara Wheeler - foreword
Seslendiren: Rebecca Gallagher
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This rediscovered classic memoir tells the incredible tale of a woman defying society's expectations to find freedom and peace in the adventure of a lifetime.

In 1934, the painter Christiane Ritter leaves her comfortable life in Austria and travels to the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to spend a year there with her husband. She thinks it will be a relaxing trip, a chance to "read thick books in the remote quiet and, not least, sleep to my heart's content," but when Christiane arrives she is shocked to realize that they are to live in a tiny ramshackle hut on the shores of a lonely fjord, hundreds of miles from the nearest settlement, battling the elements every day, just to survive.

At first, Christiane is horrified by the freezing cold, the bleak landscape the lack of equipment and supplies . . . But as time passes, after encounters with bears and seals, long treks over the ice and months on end of perpetual night, she finds herself falling in love with the Arctic's harsh, otherworldly beauty, gaining a great sense of inner peace and a new appreciation for the sanctity of life.

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Really amazing story about a woman's experience living for a year in a hunter's hut in Spitsbergen. Lots of domestic detail about what it actually takes to live for a year in such an inhospitable place. Alongside stunning descriptions of the environment and the nature she experiences. Feels slightly odd sometimes that a lot of the personal elements are not there, for example we don't get a clear idea of the relationship she has with her husband and how she feels about him; at one point she mentions having a child at home but they are never mentioned again. The narration is a bit robotic and let's it down in places by getting the intonation wrong or failing to make the most of a joke. However this is an incredible tale of transformation and the power and joy of living simply in nature.

Amazing story of transformation

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Wonderful winter listen however, the narration feels very robotic and flat. I wonder if it actually was read by the real person.

Great story narration not so much

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I recently visited Svalbard and sailed past the hut in Gråhuken in which she lived. I could recognise much of what she described and she added so much more I had not considered! The prose is absolutely beautiful. A fantastic and beautiful book thoughtfully narrated.

Svalbard comes to life on paper

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I was mesmerised by the story and how it transported me to experiences i could never have but were shared with such generosity.

the other worldlyness in the narrative

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Fascinating tale of a woman in the arctic 100 years ago. The unfolding tale of a year on Spitsbergen as subsistence hunters through the eyes of a Western European woman in her first and only year anywhere like this is utterly engrossing. The fauna and flora and the turn of the year come through strongly. Beautifully read.

Fascinating tale of a woman in the arctic

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