Aednan an epic
The tale begins in the 1910s, as Ristin and her family migrate their herd of reindeer to summer grounds. Along the way, forced to separate due to the newly formed border between Sweden and Norway, Ristin loses one of her sons in the aftermath of an accident. In the wake of this tragedy, Ristin strug...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English Swedish |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
2024.
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| Edition: | [Hardcover edition]. |
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| Summary: | The tale begins in the 1910s, as Ristin and her family migrate their herd of reindeer to summer grounds. Along the way, forced to separate due to the newly formed border between Sweden and Norway, Ristin loses one of her sons in the aftermath of an accident. In the wake of this tragedy, Ristin struggles to manage what? s left of her family and her community. In the 1970s, Lise, as part of a new generation of S?mi grappling with questions of identity and inheritance, reflects on her traumatic childhood, when she was forced to leave her parents and was placed in a Nomad School to be stripped of the language of her ancestors. Finally, in the 2010s we meet Lise? s daughter, Sandra, an embodiment of Indigenous resilience, an activist fighting for reparations in a highly publicized land rights trial, in a time when the S?mi language is all but lost. |
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| Item Description: | "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso. Translation of: Ædnan. |
| Physical Description: | 426 pages ; 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780593535455 0593535456 |
| Author Notes: | Translated by Saskia Vogel. |
