A powerful epic story of colonialism, set in eighteenth-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, love, death, evil, and the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.
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, and 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.
Praise for The Prophets of Eternal Fjord:
'From the outset of his career, Kim Leine established himself as a
Scandinavian literary figure without precedent.'
*Guardian*
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*
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