Books by Eowyn Ivey

The magical, internationally bestselling debut novel from Eowyn Ivey, THE SNOW CHILD is a fairy-tale for adults that brings the Alaskan landscape to unforgettable life.

Alaska in den 1920er Jahren: Hier leben Mabel und Jack als einfache Farmer in der einsamen Wildnis. Die Enttäuschung über ihre Kinderlosigkeit und der harte Überlebenskampf in der unwirtlichen Umgebung drohen die beiden, die sich eigentlich innig lieben, zu entzweien. Als aber der erste Schnee kommt, entdecken sie ein elfengleiches, blondes Kind, das von einem Fuchs begleitet wird. Zuerst glauben sie, dass ihre Sinne ihnen einen Streich spielen. Doch das Mädchen erweist sich als real und gewinnt langsam das Vertrauen zu ihnen.

In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep. Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart -- he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone -- but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl, who calls herself Faina, seems to be a child of the woods. She hunts with a red fox at her side, skims lightly across the snow, and somehow survives alone in the Alaskan wilderness. As Jack and Mabel struggle to understand this child who could have stepped from the pages of a fairy tale, they come to love her as their own daughter. But in this beautiful, violent place things are rarely as they appear, and what they eventually learn about Faina will transform all of them.

From the internationally bestselling author of THE SNOW CHILD comes an extraordinary story of discovery, adventure, and a husband and wife tested by the different paths their society expects them to tread.