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4.5 stars. I really enjoyed this book. At the outset, it reminded me a bit of The Shadow of the Wind with its atmospheric tone with a touch of suspense and creepiness.
The story opens at an antiquarian bookseller in Toulouse, France. Our main character, a young man, presents the shop owner with a very old piece of parchment written in a long-gone language. He needs a translator, but the shop owner wants to know how he came to have it first. It's the telling of this story that makes up the bulk o ...more
The story opens at an antiquarian bookseller in Toulouse, France. Our main character, a young man, presents the shop owner with a very old piece of parchment written in a long-gone language. He needs a translator, but the shop owner wants to know how he came to have it first. It's the telling of this story that makes up the bulk o ...more
No brain-straining required here; this is an easy, read-it-in-one-sitting book. The story is engaging,fairly fast-paced,and has the hallmarks of previous books of Mosse's with settings in France, supernatural and historic connections, and a mystery solved by the end, with a bit of religious persecution and some interesting exploration of the nature of the grieving process. The background to the book is interesting though, I hadn't heard of Catharism before.
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Following Freddie who still grieves for his bother who died during WWi. Freddie drives to southern France for a holiday when a twist of fate brings him into contact with the ghost of a woman who has suffered even greater tragedy than he. Interesting more than creepy.
The Winter Ghosts makes for a fast, cozy winter read. I especially loved reading a story set in the Pyrenees region of France. Supernatural forces, slightly mad men, gruff uber-rural French townfolk, and lots of snow. While not earthshattering in its contents, it was an enjoyable read.
In 1933, a man tells the story of "The Winter Ghosts", which occurred in 1928 in a French Pyrenees mountain village. It's really a novella stretched with Victorian-ghost-story inspired descriptions. Good for what it is.
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