Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller - Couverture souple

Truc, Olivier

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847445861 ISBN 13 : 9781847445865

Editeur : Trapdoor, 2014

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Forty Days Without Shadow is more than a splendidly told murder investigation and its consequences. It is a fascinating telling of bloody history, culture and indigenous people struggling against all odds to survive. The winter scenes are frighteningly real, and at times leave you breathless and filled with awe. A book you will not forget. A powerful, ingenious piece of crime noir. (New York Journal of Books)

A remarkable, triumphant thriller. (Telerama Magazine)

Original, fascinating, with no concessions to surface '"exoticism". (Librairie L'Atelier)

A dark, highly original novel. (Livres Hebdo)

A powerful Nordic thriller. (Librairie l'usage du monde)

With storylines that shoot along as if over ice, yet with unusual depth, Forty Days Without Shadow has won numerous awards and justly so. The author, the Nordic correspondent of Le Monde, has a deep understanding and love of the furthest stretches of his territory. Highly recommended: just as we might have thought Scandinavian crime was exhausted, a brilliant new voice comes along. (Independent)

Truly memorable..the account of seeing the first gleam of sunshine after forty days of total darkness will stay with me. (Literary Review)

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The international award-winning, bestselling phenomenon, now available in English for the first time.

Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people.

But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection, it was due to go on tour with a UN exhibition in a few short weeks.

Hours later, a man is murdered. Mattis, one of the last Sami reindeer herders, is found dead in his gumpy.

Are the two crimes connected? In a town fraught with tension--between the indigenous Samis fighting to keep their culture alive, the ultra-Lutheran Scandinavian colonists concerned with propagating their own religion, and the greedy geologists eager to mine the region's ore deposits--it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes. Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway, must find the perpetrators before it's too late...

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À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Trapdoor
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1847445861
• ISBN 13: 9781847445865
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448