The Night of the Scourge

Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match * Jo Nesbo *Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel… [A] taste of something deeply and genuinely Norwegian * Maya Lunde *An exquisitely atmospheric novel… The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your heart behind * Derek B. Miller *Mytting weaves a compelling saga of love, both lost and found, and of a country in the midst of change * Sunday Times *The Reindeer Hunters… hints at the magnetic pull of superstitions that thread beneath the conscious mind like ‘veins of silver and slag’. It also maps an age of rapid change… [A] craftily woven tale steeped in rich local dyes * Financial Times *

Lars Mytting, a novelist and journalist, was born in Favang, Norway, in 1968. His novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme was awarded the Norwegian National Booksellers’ Award and has been bought for film. Norwegian Wood has become an international bestseller, and was the Bookseller Industry Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016. His novel The Bell in the Lake was a number one bestseller in Norway and nominated for the Norwegian National Bookseller’s Award 2018.