The Colony of Good Hope
$22.48
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
29 March 2022
Summary
An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.
1728: The doomed Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country’s allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him.
The mission…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529014341 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529014344 |
| Author: | Kim Leine, Martin Aitken |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 29 March 2022 |
| Weight: | 717g |
| Dimensions: | 41mm x 153mm x 234mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
Praise for The Prophets of Eternal Fjord:
‘From the outset of his career, Kim Leine established himself as a Scandinavian literary figure without precedent.’
A superb novel … A raw, hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge … Has a grandeur and a compass that few novels this year will match. * Sunday Times *
Kim Leine
Kim Leine is a Danish-Norwegian novelist. He received the Golden Laurel award and the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize for his fourth novel, The Prophets of Eternal Fjord.
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