Podcast BRIGITTE books: that's what episode 2 is about

In the second episode of BRIGITTE books, Angela Wittmann recommends: "Vardø – After the Storm" by Kiran Millwood Hargrave: It has been historically guaranteed that on Christmas Eve 1617 a storm devours the 40 fishermen on the island of Vardø. The women are left with three old men, the children and the pastor. The novel tells how they fight for survival on the northeastern tip of Norway. 1621 shows that the edge of the Arctic is also the end of civilization: A brutal witch hunt ends with a historically proven process. In the eyes of the church and the king, it would have been more appropriate for the widows to starve. Those who take their lives into their own hands must be in league with the devil. Or has it conjured up the storm itself? Kiran Millwood Hargrave places a literary memorial to the victims.

Cover: Vardo

Meike Schnitzler chose “The Meaning of the Whole” by Anne Tyler: Micah Mortimer is a somewhat cranky, mid-young man – at home he runs a strict regime with vacuum cleaner and floor wiping days, otherwise he saves the computers of old women with his computer company: “By what did he break? "-" You should never ask this question in connection with computers. "Micah himself does not ask questions about life either, but when suddenly a young man on his doorstep looking for his father, disorder comes into the reliable structure . Anne Tyler manages to transform a person who is unspectacular at first glance into a fascinating literary figure.

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