French book set in an Alaskan Blizzard
Blizzard – Marie Vingtras
A runaway bestseller about a boy gone missing in the middle of an Alaskan blizzard
Multi-award-winning author Marie Vingtras.
Winner of the Prix Des Libraires, the French Booksellers’ Prize for Best Novel of the Year.
Right, let’s get stuck in….
Map of literary locations in Blizzard
BOARDING PASS INFORMATION
Destination : Alaska in a blizzard
Author guide: Marie Vingtras
Genre: Translated from French
Food and drink to accompany: something that fits in a backpack as you search
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A novel to transport you to Alaska
Map of literary locations in Blizzard
I read this very short novel slowly. Like footprints in the snow, you have to tread carefully and take notice of each one. A boy goes missing in a blizzard. Everyone looks for him. Several people’s lives are changed for ever. Their stories float and flutter haphazardly like the snowflakes in said blizzard.
When I read this, the world felt silent as if the snow was carpeting my hearing. The sense of claustrophobia and isolation is key to this novel and it felt like a locked-room mystery.
It also felt like a thriller with the search for the missing. I could only see a certain distance at any one time and so this felt raw and chilling. ooh I felt shivers up my spine with the sense of time, place, weather and the situation.
The location is described as ‘ this isolated edge of the world’. That alone will chill you. Add a blizzard, a lost child and dark secrets and you have a treat in store. (Obviously just in book form – I don’t think I would like to go there for real!)
Map of literary locations in Blizzard
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