The Snow Song By: Sally Gardner – Audiobook Online
The Snow Song is a fairy tale-like story about a group of women trapped in a small village secluded from the outside world. The story follows Edith, a young girl, living with her father, who forces her to marry a butcher. However, she is in love with a shepherd who promises to come back for her. When the village becomes cut off by a snowstorm, Edith loses her ability to speak. This leads to far-reaching consequences for her and the village. The story questions tradition, the power of men over women, and their fear of strong women. Despite the archetypical roles of the characters, they have emotional depth and complexity. The author successfully captures the fear that manipulates everyone and how people use traditions to protect their social standing. Edith’s story is a classic example of the “princess saves herself” category. The Snow Song is an ode to winter and an excellent choice for fans of fairy tales.
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The Snow Song
- Narrated by: Amanda Bright
The Snow Song is a beautiful fairy tale-like story about women imprisoned by superstition and shackled by guilt. On a mountaintop in the land of ancient forests lies a village full of secrets. Cut off from the outside world, it is run by the elders, the men who are tradition. Edith lives alone with her alcoholic father, who is forcing her to marry a butcher in the village. But she is in love with a shepherd who promises to come back for her. When the village is cut off in a snowstorm, Edith loses her ability to speak. And this very enchantment will have far-reaching consequences not only for Edith but for the entire village.
It is a wonderful fairy tale that questions tradition, the power of men over women, and men’s fear of strong women. The prose is beautiful and the narration by the reader/storyteller is fantastic. The imagery is beautiful.
The Snow Song is a beautiful story about winter, and I think it would be perfect for readers who also enjoy books like Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane. I found the isolated village setting and feminist fairy-tale style reminiscent of Sonia Nimr’s The Fantastic Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, which I will be reviewing next month.
I appreciated Gardner’s descriptions of this insular community and the stunning mountainous surroundings. The Snow Song is a fairy tale story, so the characters fall into archetypical roles, but they also have emotional depth and complexity than I expected from each of them. Gardner deftly captures the fear that drives everyone and shows how this is easily manipulated to control them. She also understands how people, particularly some of the women here, use and enforce repressive traditions to protect their social standing. They’d rather be at the top of the second echelon than fight for true equality and risk chance at all.
Edith’s daily life is limited by her village’s traditions – a series of edicts designed by the male elders to keep their women’ in the village and ensure all strangers stay away. When Edith disregards these rules by talking to a traveling shepherd, she creates a battle of wills that leaves her silenced figuratively and literally. Edith’s story is almost a coming-of-age tale as she grows from an idealistic, lovestruck girl to a self-determined woman. She is not really a princess, but this story definitely falls into the princess saves herself’ category and is a classic example of it! I highly recommend The Snow Song to young adult and adult readers who enjoy fairy tales.
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