The people who live there call it Thule, they live in harmony with nature, and they have a matriarchal society.Īll this is explained in the book’s prologue, but the book itself centres on Christian, only son of the Konega (queen) of Thule, whose lot in life is to marry a girl of good breeding and produce a daughter to take over when his mother dies. After the devastating effect of the earthquakes, tsunamis and whatnot pretty much destroyed civilisation as we know it, the poles settled somewhere else, and Greenland thawed out and got a lovely subtropical climate. During this war, which lasted about five days, a nuclear warhead landed in a volcano and caused such a catastrophic underground eruption that the earth’s axis tilted further. Basically this is a post-apocalyptic fantasy novel, set in an unspecified time in the future after World War Three. The title translates as Children of Mother Earth, and I’ve always loved the central concept of it. This is a book which I have read many, many times, even well into my adulthood. Bearing in mind that I’m Dutch, and my childhood was therefore spent reading Dutch books, I’d be very surprised if anyone had heard of this book, or even the author, but here goes.
This is week 21 in my 26-Week Book Challenge, and the topic this week is your favourite book from your childhood. (I even attempted German but that was a bit much for me.This post is probably not going to mean a lot to most people, but I’m going to write it anyway. personally I love Dick Francis as an author (and especially the older books that are not written partly by his son), they are English thrillers / detectives about the horse racing world, but they're all translated and they're straight stories, not overly complicated, not violent or disturbing, and at 14 I could follow along in English just fine. detective books written by Baantjer are pretty small and simple books (and they have a lot of overlap with each other as well) and could be doable. Note: they're all aimed at young people, but some have themes that would probably not appeal to 10-year olds.
the books from Klaus Kordon (a German writer) De wereld van Sofie (Jostein Gaarder) if you want a lot of book. Marcello en de echte wereld (Francisco X. Morgen toen de oorlog begon (John Marsden) Het Oneindige Verhaal en Momo en de Tijdspaarders (Michael Ende), Meester van de Zwarte Molen (Otfried Preussler), Quite complicated and probably don't try yet: Verhalen van de Tweelingbroers (republished as De Goudsmid en de Meesterdief) Note for Tonke Dragt: the easier book are:
I second the recommendations for Thea Beckman, Jan Terlouw, Annet Schaap, Tonke Dragt, and I would add Evert Hartman.
0 kommentar(er)
