- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Canada (Mar 3 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0143170597
- ISBN-13: 978-0143170594
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 463 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #619,466 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Kim Echlin's second novel, Dagmar's Daughter, draws on ancient Sumerian and Greek myths to tell a tale of three generations of women on a tiny, remote, and fictional island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, off Canada's East Coast. Norea, the oldest of the three, escapes the crushing poverty of her native Ireland by stealing her mother's boots from her coffin just before burial and hopping a boat to Canada. Dagmar, her daughter, has strange powers to influence the weather and grow plants. She falls in love with a charming rogue named Colin who fathers a son and a daughter. The girl, named Nyssa, grows up to be a talented fiddle player and gets involved with an older musician who had once loved her mother. Nyssa also pursues her dangerous fascination with the island's oddest character, Moll, a self-mutilating crone who harbours mysterious powers of healing and destruction.
Moll's mythic function in the novel feels a bit forced, and the author's relentlessly poetic prose can become exhausting at times. But there is a brilliantly heightened sense of craft, story, and setting reminiscent of another wondrously sharp and strange East Coast novel called The Shipping News. Ultimately, Echlin's sensitively wrought tale of women struggling to own both their passion and their bodies is a rich and rewarding read. --Nigel Hunt --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Mystical, seductive, and brimming with music and magic, Dagmar's Daughter follows three generations of passionate women. Norea emerges from the destitute Irish village of her childhood and stows herself on a ship bound for a remote island in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Her daughter, Dagmar, is born with an uncanny ability to control the weather, and Dagmar's daughter Nyssa is as musically brilliant as her father and as struck with wanderlust.
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