Summary
In the tradition of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light.
1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country’s allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529014334 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529014336 |
| Author: | Kim Leine, Martin Aitken |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 30 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 828g |
| Dimensions: | 243mm x 164mm x 53mm |
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Praise for The Prophets of Eternal Fjord : ‘From the outset of his career, Kim Leine established himself as a Scandinavian literary figure without precedent.’
Praise for The Prophets of Eternal Fjord:
‘From the outset of his career, Kim Leine established himself as a Scandinavian literary figure without precedent.’
A superb novel … A raw, hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge … Has a grandeur and a compass that few novels this year will match. * Sunday Times *
About The Author
Kim Leine
Kim Leine is a Danish-Norwegian novelist. His previous novel to be translated into English, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord, was shortlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award, won the Golden Laurel Award, Denmark’s leading literary prize, and the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize, awarded for books published across all the Nordic countries.
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