The Bear Hunter's Daughters: A Tale of Seven Sisters - Couverture souple

Jordahl, Anneli

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 006333884X ISBN 13 : 9780063338845

Editeur : HarperVia, 2026

Synopsis

"Go jump in a lake! Bawdy, fantastic, and surprisingly poignant, The Bear Hunter's Daughters is the perfect book for the wildest person in your life. Told with brio and humor, this fable of the seven redhaired sisters settles deep in your bones. I loved it from beginning to end." - Keith Donohue, author of The Girl in the Bog and The Stolen Child

In this funny and unforgettable modern day fairy tale, seven sisters raised in the woods fight to keep their freedom.

Deep in the woods of western Finland, a bear hunter has raised his seven daughters to live off the land and steer clear of the trappings of life in town, like cell phones and a social life outside their family. When on his youngest Elga’s twelfth birthday the hunter is killed by his prey and their mother dies soon thereafter, the sisters are left with unpaid bills and a leaky house.

The tension between sticking to the wild ways their father taught them and submitting to well-meaning townsfolk’s efforts to “help” threatens to divide the seven sisters. The eldest, Johanna, tries to wield control, Elga feels tempted by the pull to education, artist Laura spends all her time dreaming up sculptures and exploring nature—but the sisters' trips to the farmer’s market to sell foraged mushrooms and their free time in their vast forest home bring them together in riotous fun. With evocative language and visceral scene-setting, readers get lost in world they’ve invented together and join the fight to protect it.

Inspired by Aleksis Kivi’s classic Finnish novel Seven Brothers (1870), The Bear Hunter’s Daughters is at once realistic and fantastical, an intensely sensory exploration of our essential bonds both with nature and with one another.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Anneli Jordahl is an author and literary critic. She has written several works of nonfiction, as well as critically acclaimed novels, including Like the Dogs in Lafayette Park and The Bear Hunter’s Daughters, which was shortlisted for the Swedish Radio’s Novel Prize, the August Prize and France’s Prix Fragonard.

Nichola Smalley is a translator of Swedish and Norwegian literature. In 2021 she won the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize, and her work has also been nominated for the International Booker, Bernard Shaw, and Warwick Prizes. She worked for several years in publishing and has a PhD in the use of slang in contemporary Swedish and English literature. She lives in London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperVia
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 006333884X
• ISBN 13: 9780063338845
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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