Aednan: An Epic

A Guardian Top 5 Best Translated Fiction Book of the Year Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature The award-winning, deeply moving novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence of two Indigenous Sámi families over a century. As borders are imposed in northernmost Scandinavia, a reindeer-herding family is ripped apart. A century later, a young Sámi woman leads a bold call for reparations. This majestic verse novel chronicles the fates of two Indigenous families over a hundred years, rescuing from oblivion their stories of loss and resistance. As one generation succeeds another, their voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed. Written in sparse, glittering verse that flows like a current, Ædnan is a profound and moving epic of Sámi life.

Winner of the August Prize for Fiction "Full of sonorous power yet shot through with an undeniable intimacy... Extraordinary" – Washington Post "Lyrical and ambitious" – Guardian "Crystalline... The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old" – Tommy Orange

© 2024 Pushkin Press (E-bog): 9781805331322

Oversættere: Saskia Vogel

Release date

E-bog: 25. januar 2024