"In compelling detail, Leine recounts the struggles of this flawed shepherd of tough and resistant souls…. A seamless translation of an award-winning novel."— Bryce Christensen Booklist, Starred review
"A pensive, provocative, altogether extraordinary novel of a small-scale clash of cultures and its tragic consequences. Leine, who won the Nordic Council Literature Prize for this elegant epic, is a poet of Arctic places, conjuring just the right descriptions with economical prose."— Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
"Leine balances his exploration of colonial destruction with touching moments of human connection and intimacy. Epic in sweep and noteworthy for its large cast of skillfully drawn characters, this is a lush, brave book about idealism and faith."— Library Journal
"[The Prophets of Eternal Fjord] is composed of echoes, polyphony, and a playful approach to temporality and geography…The result is symphonic: politics, history, sexuality, and religion are always interwoven. The combination is perfectly balanced, fascinating, and irresistible."— Le Monde
"This is truly an original and incredible achievement, a majestic story set in an impenetrable country…The Prophets of the Eternal Fjord is challenging, striking, sometimes brutal, sometimes elegiac, in other moments discreet and classical. It transcends all genres."— La Repubblica
"A gripping, well-composed, moving and carefully planned novel…A milestone, a masterpiece."— Information
"[A] magnificent novel; one shields oneself from the fire and huddles up against the ice."— Weekendavisen
"The stark richness of Kim Leine's Greenland holds reader as firmly as character, scrabbling for a hope in a time and place that refuses to give it, showing us more of our own world than we might expect to find on these long-ago shores and in such sharp relief we cannot look away."— Steve Himmer, author of Fram
"By turns achingly beautiful and woefully tragic, noble and grotesque, Leine guides the reader with a sure hand through treacherous sea voyages, the hardships of colony life, starvation, cold, great fires in which it seems the world will end, and the utter bafflement of human souls simply trying to find their way through life. Dense with historical detail that never overwhelms the myriad characters that populate it, this historical fiction earns the word epic from its very first page."— Lance Weller, author of Wilderness
The award-winning, internationally bestselling saga of a Greenlandic community torn apart by the forces of colonialism and the one priest whose wavering guidance will determine its fate
Idealistic, foolhardy Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. He's rejected the prospect of a sleepy posting in a local parish and instead departs for the forsaken Sukkertoppen colony, where he will endeavor to convert the locals. A town battered by unremittingly harsh winters and simmering with the threat of dissent, it is a far cry from the parish he envisioned; natives from neighboring villages have unified to reject colonial rule and establish their own settlement atop Eternal Fjord. A bumbling and at times terrifically destructive mix of Shakespeare's Falstaff and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Arthur Dimmesdale, he's woefully ill prepared to confront this new sect. Torn between his instinctive compassion for the rebel congregation perched atop Eternal Fjord and his duty to the church, Falck is forced to decide where he belongs. His exploits in this brutal backwater include an accidental explosion after a night curled around a keg, a botched surgery, a love affair with a solitary and fatalistic widow, and an apprenticeship with an eager young scholar that ends in tragedy.
Based on authentic events in the 1780s and 90s, Prophets of Eternal Fjord moves from the quiet rooms of the Copenhagen bourgeoisie to the stark, hardscrabble village of the Fjord where Falck finds himself-surprisingly-at home. In gritty detail, Kim Leine reveals the corrosive effects of colonial rule.
The award-winning, internationally bestselling saga of a Greenlandic community torn apart by the forces of colonialism and the one priest whose wavering guidance will determine its fate
Idealistic, foolhardy Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. He's rejected the prospect of a sleepy posting in a local parish and instead departs for the forsaken Sukkertoppen colony, where he will endeavor to convert the locals. A town battered by unremittingly harsh winters and simmering with the threat of dissent, it is a far cry from the parish he envisioned; natives from neighboring villages have unified to reject colonial rule and establish their own settlement atop Eternal Fjord. A bumbling and at times terrifically destructive mix of Shakespeare's Falstaff and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Arthur Dimmesdale, he's woefully ill prepared to confront this new sect. Torn between his instinctive compassion for the rebel congregation perched atop Eternal Fjord and his duty to the church, Falck is forced to decide where he belongs. His exploits in this brutal backwater include an accidental explosion after a night curled around a keg, a botched surgery, a love affair with a solitary and fatalistic widow, and an apprenticeship with an eager young scholar that ends in tragedy.
Based on authentic events in the 1780s and 90s, Prophets of Eternal Fjord moves from the quiet rooms of the Copenhagen bourgeoisie to the stark, hardscrabble village of the Fjord where Falck finds himself-surprisingly-at home. In gritty detail, Kim Leine reveals the corrosive effects of colonial rule.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940169607451 |
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| Publisher: | Blackstone Audio, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 08/16/2016 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
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