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Ragnarok by A.S. Byatt
4.0

The Norse myths in this very short book are as fragmentary and unexpected as any mythology, but the story of the child reading the myths tied them together and provides a narrative framework that makes the impersonal myths human. The detailed descriptions of the natural world, and the strangeness of the stories seen through the mind of a child makes this book compelling and hauntingly authentic.