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Cargando... Tierra fría (2009)por Sarah Moss
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. A finales del verano, un grupo de arqueólogos viaja a las costas de Groenlandia para buscar los restos de una civilización perdida: la que fundaron en el año 982 los primeros colonos escandinavos, que desaparecieron misteriosamente de la isla a comienzos del siglo XV. Sin embargo, cuando llega el duro invierno glacial, quedan atrapados entre el frío y la nieve, sin conexión a internet y rodeados por los espectros que todavía persisten en la zona. Así, aislados del mundo, los arqueólogos se enfrentarán a la escasez de alimentos y a sus propios fantasmas con el temor de que nadie, quizás, vaya a rescatarlos, pues un virus mortal acaba de propagarse por la tierra y amenaza con diezmar a la humanidad.
Cold Earth will give you nightmares, but this is not a bad thing. When you wake up in the morning, you will be glad that bird flu, swine flu, anthrax, climate change and the dead of winter remain, on this pleasant June day, only threats, and you will be especially glad that you are not spending your summer on the west coast of Greenland, even though the west coast of Greenland is one of the most interesting places in the world. But you will also be glad that you've read Cold Earth. It is an unusual novel, both in its setting and in its intensity. It breathes authenticity, even to someone, like me, who has visited the west coast of Greenland. Moss's eerie, sophisticated debut novel drops readers into the middle of Greenland's Arctic summer during an archeological dig to unearth traces of lost Viking settlements. . . . Premios
A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland. But as they sink into uneasy domesticity, there is news of an epidemic back home, and their communications with the outside world fall away. Facing a Greenland winter for which they are hopelessly ill-equipped, Nina, Ruth, Catriona, Jim, Ben, and Yianni, knowing that their missives may never reach their loved ones, write final letters home. These letters make up the narrative of Cold Earth, with each section of the book comprised of one character's first-person perspective in letter form. In this exceptional and haunting debut novel, Moss weaves a rich tapestry of personal narrative, history, love, grief, and naked survival. Cold Earth is both a heart-pounding thriller and a highly sophisticated novel of ideas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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