A Guardian Top 5 Best Translated Fiction Book of the Year
Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
The award-winning, deeply moving novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence of two Indigenous Sámi families over a century
As borders are imposed in northernmost Scandinavia, a reindeer-herding family is ripped apart. A century later, a young Sámi woman leads a bold call for reparations. This majestic verse novel chronicles the fates of two Indigenous families over a hundred years, rescuing from oblivion their stories of loss and resistance.
As one generation succeeds another, their voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed. Written in sparse, glittering verse that flows like a current,?Ædnan is a profound and moving epic of Sámi life.
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Winner of the August Prize for Fiction
'Full of sonorous power yet shot through with an undeniable intimacy... Extraordinary' Washington Post
'Lyrical and ambitious' Guardian
'Crystalline... The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old' Tommy Orange
"Epic, but also intimate and powerful" - Guardian, Best translated fiction of 2024
"Crystalline... reads like poetry and myth at once. There are intricate layers of beauty and meaning here in sparse clusters across a vast new landscape as I've never read before. The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old" - Tommy Orange, author of 'There, There'
"Vividly captures the plight of the Sámi people... Lyrical and ambitious... Ædnan contains echoes of epic poems and Norse sagas but also feels contemporary and accessible... bold and original" - Guardian
"Remarkable... Like the best epics, Aednan is a story not just of a people but also of people, full of sonorous power yet shot through with an undeniable intimacy... Extraordinary" - Washington Post
"Moves as gracefully as a waterfall... This unique novel beautifully conjures losses and transitions within the flickering shadows of language" - Irish Times
"A sharp-edged tale in verse of colonial suppression, resistance, and survival" - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Incredibly beautiful and magnificent... With Ædnan, Swedish literature has been enriched" - Dagens Nyheter
"Not only a linguistic adventure, innovative and rooted in both traditions and renewal, but also a statement that we are bigger and freer than the borders that shut us out from each other... Remarkable and magnificent" - Norrtelje Tidning
"Eagerly as with any page-turner, I rush through the century that Axelsson's poem encompasses" - Svenska Dagbladet
"A work that is unlike anything else in contemporary Swedish literature. It is a family chronicle, a political history, an indictment - in verse, albeit a free one. An epic, quite simply... Axelsson boldly writes herself into a time-honoured tradition" - Sydsvenskan
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature
The award-winning, deeply moving novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence of two Indigenous Sámi families over a century
As borders are imposed in northernmost Scandinavia, a reindeer-herding family is ripped apart. A century later, a young Sámi woman leads a bold call for reparations. This majestic verse novel chronicles the fates of two Indigenous families over a hundred years, rescuing from oblivion their stories of loss and resistance.
As one generation succeeds another, their voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed. Written in sparse, glittering verse that flows like a current,?Ædnan is a profound and moving epic of Sámi life.
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Winner of the August Prize for Fiction
'Full of sonorous power yet shot through with an undeniable intimacy... Extraordinary' Washington Post
'Lyrical and ambitious' Guardian
'Crystalline... The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old' Tommy Orange
"Epic, but also intimate and powerful" - Guardian, Best translated fiction of 2024
"Crystalline... reads like poetry and myth at once. There are intricate layers of beauty and meaning here in sparse clusters across a vast new landscape as I've never read before. The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old" - Tommy Orange, author of 'There, There'
"Vividly captures the plight of the Sámi people... Lyrical and ambitious... Ædnan contains echoes of epic poems and Norse sagas but also feels contemporary and accessible... bold and original" - Guardian
"Remarkable... Like the best epics, Aednan is a story not just of a people but also of people, full of sonorous power yet shot through with an undeniable intimacy... Extraordinary" - Washington Post
"Moves as gracefully as a waterfall... This unique novel beautifully conjures losses and transitions within the flickering shadows of language" - Irish Times
"A sharp-edged tale in verse of colonial suppression, resistance, and survival" - Kirkus Reviews, starred review
"Incredibly beautiful and magnificent... With Ædnan, Swedish literature has been enriched" - Dagens Nyheter
"Not only a linguistic adventure, innovative and rooted in both traditions and renewal, but also a statement that we are bigger and freer than the borders that shut us out from each other... Remarkable and magnificent" - Norrtelje Tidning
"Eagerly as with any page-turner, I rush through the century that Axelsson's poem encompasses" - Svenska Dagbladet
"A work that is unlike anything else in contemporary Swedish literature. It is a family chronicle, a political history, an indictment - in verse, albeit a free one. An epic, quite simply... Axelsson boldly writes herself into a time-honoured tradition" - Sydsvenskan
Формат: Скан PDf
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