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History of Wolves

Yazan: Emily Fridlund
Seslendiren: Caitlin Thorburn
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Even a lone wolf wants to belong....

Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in an ex-commune beside a lake in the beautiful, austere backwoods of Northern Minnesota. The other girls at school call Linda 'Freak' or 'Commie'. Her parents mostly leave her to her own devices whilst the other inhabitants have grown up and moved on.

So when the perfect family - mother, father and their little boy, Paul - move into the cabin across the lake, Linda insinuates her way into the family's orbit. She begins to babysit Paul and feels that she finally has a place to belong. But something isn't right. Drawn into secrets she doesn't understand, Linda must make a choice. But how can a girl with no real knowledge of the world understand what the consequences will be?

2018, Man Booker Prize, Short-listed

©2017 Emily Fridlund (P)2016 Orion Publishing Group Limited Family Life Genre Fiction Kurgu Literary Fiction
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Reminds me of Curtis Sittenfeld...so original, a beautiful literary work" (Viv Groskop)

"A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite" (Louise Doughty)
So delicately calibrated and precisely beautiful that one might not immediately sense the sledgehammer of pain building inside this book. And I mean that in the best way. What powerful tension and depth (Aimee Bender, author of The Color Master and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)
As exquisite a first novel as I've ever encountered. Poetic, complex and utterly, heartbreakingly beautiful (T. C. Boyle, author of The Harder They Come)
First thing you see is the bracing intelligence of the book's young narrator - no big-eyed sentiments for Linda, raised amid blighted ideals in the ceaseless winters and vast swamps of northern Minnesota. So observant is Linda that you trust her instantly, but it's her own search for trust, for connection even at enormous cost, that will hold you to the final hour. Emily Fridlund's language is generous and precise, her story grief-tempered and forcefully moving. History of Wolves is the loneliest thing I've read in years, and it's gorgeous. These are haunted pages (Leif Enger)
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At a very basic level this novel seems very simple, a tale of a young girl growing up in an unusual environment ( an ex-commune) who becomes attracted to the life of a seemingly ordinary family who live nearby. She becomes drawn in by that family and becomes implicated in the secrets that bind them. It all ends in tragedy and the girl has to examine her part in it.

But this novel is so much more than that straightforward narrative. It examines bullying in all its forms, by adults and children; secrets and lies; the nature of truth; coercion within relationships; religion and the choices that it forces upon vulnerable people; the rights of children; alleged paedophiles and their 'victims'.

It is very atmospheric and the descriptions of the remote area in which the story is set are very vivid. The only thing that bothered me was the voice of the narrator. Someone with a little more gravitas would have been more suitable, I felt. but overall, it didn't spoil the story.

An absorbing novel, with hidden depths.

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
This didn't blow my mind, but I'd certainly recommend it. I had no idea what was going to happen and it was compelling.

Intriguing and enjoyable

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
The story was drawn out and I found it rather tedious. Protagonist not very likeable and not interesting enough. Would have benefited from a good merciless editor who'd cut out half of the heroine's inner monologue/emotions.

Fine narration, dull story

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
This book started off so well, the initial build up to the main theme and story line was do promising, but it tailed off massively... very disappointing.

A lot of really good themes, but...

Bir sorun oluştu. Lütfen birkaç dakika sonra tekrar deneyin.
The reader's voice was problematic - I had to borrow the book to find that Patcher was Patra. Patra and Paul were both fey creatures, but to match their voice with the whole book made it hard to follow. My own fault, I so much wanted to hear this I didn't download a sample.

Voice problems

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