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Light on snow a novel

When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world.

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  • "The events of a December afternoon, on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the twelve-year-old girl's understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him ; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made ; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice ... Thirty-year-old Nicky recalls the vivid images of that fateful December. Her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart seeks to heal itself."
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11 year-old's understanding of the world."
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world."@en
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world."
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife. The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself."
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife. The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself."@en
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 11-year-old's understanding of the world. A brilliant and beautiful contemporary novel about love and memory from the author of the bestselling novels All He Ever Wanted and The Pilots Wife."
  • "When a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, the event forever alters the 12-year-old's understanding of the world."@en
  • "Walking through snow near their home twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon and her father discover an abandoned infant."
  • "Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story."@en
  • "Twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon, still dealing with the loss of her mother and baby sister two years earlier, and her grieving father's sudden decision to move to an isolated New England farmhouse, takes further steps into the adult world when she and her dad find an abandoned newborn clinging to life in the woods near their home, and later come to know the young mother and learn her story."
  • "Depuis la mort accidentelle de sa mère, Nicky vit avec son père Robert Dillon dans une maison isolée dans la forêt. Un jour, ils découvrent un nouveau-né abandonné dans la neige. Charlotte, la mère de cet enfant, se rend chez les Dillon. C'est alors qu'une tempête de neige s'abat sur eux et les coupe du monde pendant deux jours. Deux jours pendant lesquels Charlotte leur raconte son histoire."
  • "The events of a December afternoon, on which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the twelve-year-old girl's understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice ... Thirty-year-old Nicky recalls the vivid images of that fateful December. Her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart seeks to heal itself."@en
  • "What makes a family? That's what twelve-year-old Nicky Dillon wonders after she and her widowed father discover a wailing, abandoned baby in the snow-filled woods near their New Hampshire home. Through the days that follow, the Dillons face a thicket of decisions, each seeming to carry equal possibilities of heartbreak or redemption. Writing with all the emotional richness that has drawn millions of readers around the world to her fiction, Anita Shreve unfolds in Light on Snow."@en
  • "The events of a December afternoon, during which a father and his daughter find an abandoned infant in the snow, will forever alter the 11-year-old girls understanding of the world and the adults who inhabit it: a father who has taken great pains to remove himself from society in order to put an unthinkable tragedy behind him; a young woman who must live with the consequences of the terrible choices she has made; and a detective whose cleverness is exceeded only by his sense of justice. Written from the point of view of 30-year-old Nicky as she recalls the vivid images of that fateful December, her tale is one of love and courage, of tragedy and redemption, and of the ways in which the human heart always seeks to heal itself."
  • "Showshoeing over crusted snow in the woods near their home, twelve-year-old NIcky Dillon and her father come upon something shocking. There, in the pristine winter scene, an abandoned baby wails, its survival made possible only by the coincidence of their having chosen this path for their late afternoon outing. In the days and weeks that follow. Nicky glimpses corners of the adult world that she never dreamed existed. As she follows the fate of the baby girl and talks with the police officers assigned to investigate, Nicky for the first time asks questions about her life's strange shape. Why has her father moved them to this isolated New England farmhouse? How can they come to terms with the tragedy they left behind?"
  • "Remembering the December afternoon twenty years earlier when her father and she found an abandoned infant in the snow, Nicky recalls her father's efforts to escape society after a tragedy and a young woman's struggles to live with her choices."
  • "After her family has been shattered by the deaths of her mother and baby sister in a car accident, Nicky Dillon, 12, and her father, Robert, move to a small New Hampshire town. One evening, they discover a newborn abandoned in the snow. When the infant's mother, a college student, comes to the Dillon home, the three become snowbound during a blizzard. As she learns the details of the birth, Nicky befriends and tries to hide the young woman from the detective on the case."@en

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  • "Light on snow a novel"
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  • "Une Lumiere Sur la Neige"
  • "De vondeling"
  • "Light on snow"@da
  • "Light on snow"
  • "Light on snow"@en
  • "Nūr bar barf"
  • "Une lumière sur la neige : [roman]"
  • "אור על שלג"
  • "Light on show"@en
  • "Light on snow : a novel"
  • "Light on snow : a novel"@en
  • "Une lumière sur la neige"
  • "Ljus över snö"@sv
  • "Une lumiere sur la neige"
  • "Una luce nella neve : romanzo"@it
  • "Una luce nella neve : romanzo"
  • "Light on snow A novel"
  • "Or ʻal sheleg"
  • "Light on snow : a Novel"
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  • "Stille über dem Schnee : Roman"
  • "Stille über dem Schnee Roman"
  • "Reflejos sobre la nieve"
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