Snow / Ellen Matson ; translated from the Swedish by Sarah Death.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mattson, Ellen, 1962-

Contributor:

Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Death, Sarah.

Standardized Title:

Snö. English

Language:

English

Swedish

Subjects (All):

History.

Sweden--History--1718-1814--Fiction.

Sweden.

Genre:

Historical fiction.

Fiction.

History.

Physical Description:

182 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London : J. Cape, 2005.

Language Note:

Translated from the Swedish.

Summary:

"'The sky was now a block of darkness, punctured only by driving snow. The stars had gone out, the king was dead. And the wound on his arm refused to heal.'" "So begins Snow, the first novel by Ellen Mattson to be published in Britain - an exploration of an individual's codes of ethics and honour in the face of political and social collapse. The man is Jakob Torn, a small-town apothecary, stumbling drunkenly through the streets, a refugee from his own home, carrying a deep stab-wound inflicted by his wife. He does not understand what brought on this sudden violence, any more than he can come to terms with the death, in battle, of his king. When the town begins to fill with the starving, frost-bitten remnants of the defeated army, and Jakob is conscripted into helping to embalm the king's body, all his certainties are called into question." "Though set in 1718 on the west coast of Sweden, Snow is a modern and universal novel, interested less in the real-life historical drama that forms the backdrop than in the emotional and moral dilemma of Jakob Torn - a simple, loyal, honourable man who finds himself the damaged centre of a collapsing world."--Jacket.

Notes:

Originally published: Stockholm : A. Bonniers, 2001.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Zeigler Davis Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Mattson, Ellen, 1962- Snö. English. Snow.

ISBN:

0224072668

9780224072663

OCLC:

60710202

Online:

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