Wassmo, Herbjørg: DINA’S BOOK. The Magical European Bestseller

Great Britain 1996. Set in19th-century Norway, this novel tells the story of a beautiful, eccentric, and unpredictable woman who bewitches everyone she meets. At the age of five, Dina unwittingly causes her mother’s death. Blamed by her father and banished to a farm, she grows up untamed and untaught. Her guilt becomes her obsession; her unforgiving mother haunts her every day. When she returns home, it is only Dina’s tutor who can tame her by reaching her through music. Married off at sixteen to a wealthy landowner, Jacob dies under odd circumstances and Dina - after a period of trauma during which she is mute - runs his estate with an iron hand. But she still wrestles with the unappeased ghosts of both Jacob and her mother, until one day a mysterious stranger - a Russian wanderer - enters her life. , English, Year1996, Illust. B/W1, Illust. Color0, ISBN 0552996734, Code 5604. Softbound, In Pristine Condition, Cat. of exh. Bio. Pages 526, Size 8”x 5”