Ragnarok: The End of the Gods
Written by A. S. Byatt
Narrated by Harriet Walter
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About this audiobook
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.
A. S. Byatt
Antonia S. Byatt (1936-2023) fue una novelista, ensayista y crítica de renombre internacional. Estudió en York y en el Newnham College en Cambridge, enseñó en la Central School of Art and Design y fue profesora titular de inglés en el University College de Londres, antes de dedicarse por completo a la escritura. Entre sus novelas destacan Posesión(ganadora del Premio Booker en 1990), El libro de los niños (preseleccionada para el Premio Booker y ganadora del James Tait Black Memorial Prize de ficción), el díptico Ángeles e insectos y el cuarteto de Frederica, compuesto por La virgen en el jardín, Naturaleza muerta, La Torre de Babel y La mujer que silba. Sus libros se han traducido a treinta y dos idiomas. Fue galardonada en 2016 con el Premio Erasmus por su «gran ojo para describir las relaciones en la vida pública y privada», en 2017 con el Premio Park Kyong-ni y en 2018 con el Premio Hans Christian Andersen de Literatura. Fue Dama Comendadora de la Orden del Imperio Británico desde 1999.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Jan 11, 2024
This is a brilliant retelling of the Norse myth Ragnarok. I always marvel at A. S. Byatt’s beautiful prose.
