Kristin Hannah: biography, books

Kristin Hannah is a popular contemporary writer living in the United States. Almost all of her novels, and this is the main genre in which she writes, became bestsellers and found their readers around the world, that is nonsense for contemporary literature. The article will cover the biography of Christine and a list of her most famous works.

Biography

Christine Hannah was born in 1960 in California, where the sun is hot all year round, so she spent her entire childhood on the beach, surfing and building sand constructions, and with them dreams. But their future writer has always found it transcendental, it's all about the sign of the zodiac. A typical view of Libra is to see and find problems in everything, to look at them from different sides, to try very long and diligently to find a solution. But, probably, it did not become a minus for Kristin, because if she had not been like that, she could hardly have written her deep and heart-rending novels.

Love for adventure and new places went to a woman from her father. When she was 8 years old, her father decided that it was not worth while sitting around and it's time to choose a more suitable place for living. So, he bought a minivan, collected the whole family, consisting of 3 children, a wife, a dog and him, and they set out on their journey. After almost 2 months they found the perfect place for themselves - Washington, where the eyes were blinded by the greenery of the trees and the clarity of the lakes.

But the happiness did not last so long, soon Kristin Hannah lost her mother, forgot about her creative beginning, about the book that they started to write together, and entered the institute to study jurisprudence. Having finished it, the girl got married and became pregnant. Pregnancy was rather difficult, Christine had to lie in the hospital for 5 months, where she read the entire home library, and then realized that she herself wanted to write. And she succeeded, she paid every free minute to manuscripts. In 1990, finally received the cherished "good" from the publisher and released her first book, Christine Hannah.

Her books are given below. These are the works of the author, who liked most of all the readers.

«Night road»

This story revolves around one family, where the housewife Mood brings up two children: Zak and Miyu. She completely lives for them, devotes herself entirely to them, loves and cuddles excessively. But in the life of her friend there is a misfortune, and Mood has to take into the idyll created her friend's daughter, who has behind her not quite a happy childhood. Soon the woman realizes that her son Zach falls in love with a girl. Mood does not frighten it, and she takes the girl as her own. But the graduation of children is approaching - the most fateful night that can turn a family's life upside down.

"Fireflies Street"

It would seem, how can absolutely different people be friends? It turns out, it is easy. This is what Christine Hannah is trying to prove in her novel, comparing two young girls. One of them is born in a well-to-do and loving family, has plans for life, priorities, the main one being a career, and the other is disliked and rejected, does not know the mother's affection and therefore dreams of giving it, most wants to have her own family. By chance, these girls turn out to be neighbors, and then girlfriends. This friendship, they seem, can carry through all life, but something goes wrong, and women quarrel very much. Will they be able to overcome their pride and remember each other or will this quarrel become fatal for their friendship?

The book "Nightingale", Christine Hannah

The book tells of the events of the beginning of the Second World War. Europe, it is 1939. The husband of Carriva Vianna Moriak goes to the front, but she can not believe until the last that enemies can attack her native country. But soon he begins to see with his own eyes all the horrors. In their village invades the fascists, now for it the sounds of bombs, German speech and black from the planes of the sky become familiar. And one morning a German officer comes to her house, whom she must either admit or lose her life.

Curryva has a sister, a young girl, who is not afraid of anything. That's why her father forces her to go to the village to her sister. Thus begins the test that has become for her life.

For this book received many awards Christine Hannah. "Nightingale" became her new best-seller.

Read the books of this author should start with these works, in this case everyone can find in them what Kristin tried to convey.