Ragnarok
Subtitle: the end of the gods
By: A.S. Byatt
Publisher: Grove Press; Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780802129925
Subjects: Norse Mythology; Gods; Fiction; World War, 1939-1945; End of the world
Description: As the bombs of the Blitz rain down on Britain, one young girl is evacuated to the countryside. She is struggling to make sense of her new wartime life. Then she is given a copy of Asgard and the Gods -- a book of ancient Norse myths -- and her inner and outer worlds are transformed.