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"One of the greatest tale-spinners since Dumas." --Cleveland Plain Dealer
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With the same meticulous scholarship and narrative legerdemain she brought to her hugely popular Lymond Chronicles, our foremost historical novelist travels further into the past. In King Hereafter, Dorothy Dunnett's stage is the wild, half-pagan country of eleventh-century Scotland. Her hero is an ungainly young earl with a lowering brow and a taste for intrigue. He calls himself Thorfinn but his Christian name is Macbeth.
Dunnett depicts Macbeth's transformation from an angry boy who refuses to accept his meager share of the Orkney Islands to a suavely accomplished warrior who seizes an empire with the help of a wife as shrewd and valiant as himself. She creates characters who are at once wholly creatures of another time yet always recognizable--and she does so with such realism and immediacy that she once more elevates historical fiction into high art.
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I have never read anything else by this author, and am not familiar enough with the period (circa 1,000 AD) to comment knowledgeably on her research, but just judging by her use of unusual Norse and Gaelic terminology, and the frequent use of translated Norse verse, it seems apparent that she is intimately familiar with her subject.
The book reads very well, and the author is highly skilled in creating metaphorical phrases and lyrical descriptions. The book is an absolute pleasure to read, despite many passages that are incompletely translated, and the surfeit of odd names that defy pronunciation. In context, everything becomes intelligible, and the gist of the intended meaning is plain.
A word about the plot: there doesn't seem to be any. The story simply unfolds, like a saga of the protagonist, Thorfinn, his wife, Groa, and their supporters and antagonists. Thorfinn's "Christian" name is Macbeth, in the story.
This is a hefty book for which I am grateful (0ver 720 pages, including, at the end, genealogical charts of the royalty of Scotland, Normandy, Norway and England) and I have not yet finished it. But, I'm hooked. I'm savoring every word. I am really interested in what transpires next. When it ends, I will be sorry that there is no more to read.
So far, I have seen a reference to William the Bastard, of Normandy, introduced by a reference to him at the age of 8 years, in 1,033 AD. Of course, history tells us that he conquered England at the Battle of Hastings in the year 1,066 AD, whereupon his appellation happily (and understandably) changed from "Bastard" to "Conqueror."
I have the feeling that this very interesting book, which I am reading with great delight, is the source of much carefully researched history, although it is presented as fiction. And, as one reviewer has claimed, Macbeth and Thorfinn may or may not have been the same person in fact, historically. Frankly, I don't care. It is a very entertaining book, and I'm happy to read it.
Joseph Pierre
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