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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods (Audio CD) (Unabridged)
Ragnarok The End of the Gods - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:A. S. Byatt, Harriet Walter (Narrator) In this brilliant retelling of the Norse myth about the end of the world, the award-winning author of Possession and The Children's Book unleashes a story of the destruction of life on this planet and the end of the gods themselves. — As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countrys... more »ide. She is struggling to make sense of her new life, whose dark, war-ravaged days feel very removed from the peace and love being preached in church and at school. 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. She feels an instant kinship with these vivid, beautiful, terrifying tales of the end of the gods - they seem far more real, far more familiar during these precarious days. 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 Byatt weaves into this most timely of books.
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.
Unabridged recording narrated by Harriet Walter, 4 CDs, 3 hours, 46 minutes.« less