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The night of the scourge / Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin.
Van Pelt Library PT8952.23.Y88 S5713 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mytting, Lars, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Mytting, Lars, 1968- English ; Hekne. 3.
- The sister bells trilogy ; [3]
- Standardized Title:
- Skråpånatta. English
- Language:
- English
- Norwegian
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Underground movements--Norway--Fiction.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Clergy--Norway--Fiction.
- Clergy.
- Families--Norway--Fiction.
- Families.
- Betrayal--Fiction.
- Betrayal.
- Norway--History--German occupation, 1940-1945--Fiction.
- Norway.
- Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
- Magic realist fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 536 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Night of the scourge : a novel
- Place of Publication:
- New York : The Overlook Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Butangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church. The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come true. Schweigaard tries to understand the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is the night when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock. Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis. Astrid joins the Resistance, and Kai is thrown out of his own church. Betrayal within Astrid's own family unites the Sister Bells in Dresden. Special effort and sacrifice, not only from the Hekne family, will be needed to combat the postwar rumors and mistrust. This family drama, set in the tumultuous times of WWII, beautifully completes the Sister Bells trilogy. But while it connects to the previous books in surprising and thrilling ways, it can also be read as a standalone, a grand and epic novel that intertwines Norwegian folklore and myths with a rich story of hardship and passion."--Amazon.com
- Notes:
- Series numeration from Goodreads.
- ISBN:
- 9781419760938
- 1419760939
- OCLC:
- 1498856379
- Publisher Number:
- 90101670735
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