I’m going through an exceptionally painful and long drawn flareup of a chronic illness. I am looking for a book, preferably something literary, that is set in winter/in a cold country. I guess something along the lines of Anna Karenina or Hunger by Knut Hamsun.
What I am not looking for: sci-fi/fantasy/YA
What I’d like: multigenerational family sagas/fictionalised memoirs/campus novels
by Last_Echidna_66
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The Hearts Invisible Furies
Two Chinese recommendation (winters are very cold there):
– To live: 30 years of a family through the Chinese civil war and Mao Zedong’s regime.
– One’a Man Bible (banned in China): the fictionalised biography of a young man in the cultural revolution. The author won the Nobel prize.
I’m about 2/3 through The Terror by Dan Simmons and it’s really good.
It’s about a doomed attempt to find the Northwest Passage in the 1840s. It has an old-school vibe, as it it was written in the time it takes place.
The Left Hand of Darkness. Sci-fi that takes place on a planet during an ice age.
Anything Bryce Courtenay wrote. The Power of One, the Tommo and Hawk books, and Jack of Diamonds are my favorites. Maybe avoid April Fool’s Day as that one is a memoir about his son getting AIDS in the 80s.
*the snow child* – eowyn ivey
*we, the drowned* – carsten jensen
also, haven’t read these yet, but they might be a good fit
*the mercies* – kiran millwood hargrave
*latitudes of melt* – joan clark
The Family Moskat by Isaac Bashevis Singer
The vanishing half by Brit Bennett for a multigenerational family saga