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Winter Garden
- A Novel
- Gesprochen von: Susan Ericksen
- Spieldauer: 14 Std. und 38 Min.
- Ungekürztes Hörbuch
- Kategorien: Literatur & Belletristik, Belletristik

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in Kristin Hannah’s Winter Garden, we find three women - a mother and two daughters by blood, but strangers in their hearts - reeling from the loss of the man who held their fragile family together. Emptiness pervades this story - hollowing out what is left of the Whitson family and creeping into the space between narrator Susan Erickson’s words.
Anya and her daughters Meredith and Nina have already lost their husband and father to death - and risk losing each other to pride. Evan Whitson knew of this risk, and on his deathbed asked his wife to tell their daughters her “fairy tale” from start to finish. And so we find the Whitson women gathered in the dark at their family home, Belye Nochi, night after night.
Meredith is the older daughter who stayed home to take care of the family business, and her marriage is falling apart. Younger sister Nina, meanwhile, has traveled the globe as a renowned photographer, but refuses to marry the love of her life. Neither sister has much of a relationship with the other - much less with their cold and distant mother, Anya, whose mysterious past in Russia haunts them all.
Erickson’s Anya is resolute, her Nina bold, and her Meredith lost. Effortlessly, it seems, Erickson captures in one moment the decades of sorrow in Anya’s voice and in the next the ready spirit in Nina’s. Always we hear the sheer exhaustion in Meredith’s. Erickson’s voice is at times empty and full, icy and warm, sharp and soft. Throughout the book all three women are alternately devastated with loss, isolated by bitterness, and joyous for the love of family, and Erickson lets us hear it all with her honest and gentle delivery.
Winter Garden is a story best listened to - it is after all a testament to the power of storytelling. What Meredith and Nina hear in their mother’s story will cause them to face their grief head on and just might make them a family once again. --Sarah Evans Hogeboom
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Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn't know her mother?
From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past.
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist. But when their beloved father falls ill, Meredith and Nina find themselves together again, standing alongside their cold, disapproving mother, Anya, who even now, offers no comfort to her daughters. As children, the only connection between them was the Russian fairy tale Anya sometimes told the girls at night. On his deathbed, their father extracts a promise from the women in his life: the fairy tale will be told one last time - and all the way to the end. Thus begins an unexpected journey into the truth of Anya's life in war-torn Leningrad, more than five decades ago. Alternating between the past and present, Meredith and Nina will finally hear the singular, harrowing story of their mother's life, and what they learn is a secret so terrible and terrifying that it will shake the very foundation of their family and change who they believe they are.
Kritikerstimmen
“It's a tearjerker, but the journey is as lovely - and haunting - as a snow filled winter's night.” --People Magazine
“This tearjerker weaves a convincing historical novel and contemporary family drama.” --Library Journal
“Readers will find it hard not to laugh a little and cry a little more as mother and daughters reach out to each other just in the nick of time.” --Publishers Weekly
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- 14.11.2016
Gut für Einsteiger von historischen Romanen.
Die Geschichte ist spannend. Man braucht aber etwas Geduld, bis sich alle Elemente ineinander fügen. Die Story basiert auf einer Märchenerzählung, die einen großen Anteil an der gesamten Geschichte einnimmt. Darunter gibt es zähe, aber auch sehr spannende Stellen. Ich bin kein Freund von Wiederholungen, sondern suche mehr den "aha-Effekt". Dieser kam mir hier etwas zu spät. Zudem fehlten mir detailliertere historische Wegweiser. Positiv ist die visuelle Dichte der Erzählung. Am Ende habe ich nun viele Bilder im Kopf, die ich mit anderen Romanen abgleiche.
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- Claire
- 15.10.2021
langatmig und langweilig
Bin diesmal sehr enttäuscht von kristin Hannah. Ihre bisherigen Bücher waren weit besser recherchiert und spannend geschrieben.
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- Anonymer Hörer
- 25.05.2021
extraordinary book!
I can highly recommend it, extremely interesting and the narator is just perfect. you completely dive into the story, characters and emotions. wonderful.
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