In his powerful fourth novel, Charles Frazier returns to the time and place of Cold Mountain, vividly bringing to life the chaos and devastation of the Civil War.
With her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. He instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history—culpable regardless of her intentions.
The Confederacy falling, her marriage in tatters, and the country divided, Varina and her children escape Richmond and travel south on their own, now fugitives with “bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit.”
Intimate in its detailed observations of one woman’s tragic life and epic in its scope and power, Varina is a novel of an American war and its aftermath. Ultimately, the audiobook is a portrait of a woman who comes to realize that complicity carries consequences.
Mississippi, 1845. Als ihre Heiratspläne wegen einer Fehlinvestition ihres Vaters fehlschlagen, willigt die junge Varina Howell ein, den viel älteren Jefferson Davis zu heiraten und hofft nun auf ein gesichertes Leben. Doch Davis strebt eine Karriere in der Politik an und plötzlich ist Varina mittendrin in den Wirren des Sezessionskriegs.
Jahr:
[2018]
Verlag:
New York, HarperCollins
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ISBN:
978-0-06-289620-9
Beschreibung:
unabridged, 10 CD (12 h)
Sprache:
Englisch
Mediengruppe:
Hörbuch