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Pushkin Press, 2024. 9781805331315. 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original blue lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 425 (no inscriptions).

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Pushkin Press, 25/01/2024 00:00:01. hardcover. New. 4.2967 in x 22.2831 in x 14.4890 in.

Original Hardcover. Publisher: Faber & Faber | 2024 | Original Hardcover | 432 sidor ; 22 cm | This book is brand new. | Language: Engelska --- Information regarding the book: In Northern Sami, the word?AEdnan?means the land, the ground and the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sami families over a hundred years as they are expelled from their ancestral home, giving powerful voice to a history under threat of erasure. In the 1910s, Ristin and Ber-Jona try to care for their infant twins while migrating their reindeer herd to their summer pasture. As a border is imposed between northernmost Sweden and Norway, the family faces tragedy when it is forced to migrate south. In the 1970s, Lise - part of a new generation of Sami grappling with questions of identity and inheritance - reflects on her traumatic childhood, when she was placed in a "nomad school" to be stripped of her ancestors' language. Moving into the 2010s, Lise's daughter Sandra seeks… Read More