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When Hillevi, a young, inexperienced midwife, moves from the university town of Uppsala to the wilderness of Svartvattnet (Blackwater) to be with her unofficial fiance, she is ill prepared for what awaits her. In this frigid, austere, and isolated territory, she encounters the overwhelming and unpredictable forces of nature and demoralizing poverty and ignorance while also gaining access to the unfamiliar world of nomadic Sami reindeer herders. A single traumatic event, never fully confronted, has devastating and far-reaching repercussions, but Hillevi also finds unexpected warmth and love. Incorporating elements of the "jojk" oral tradition of Sami culture, "God's Mercy" is a thoroughly engrossing story about the capriciousness of memory, the resilience of the human psyche, and the endless wonder of the wild.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Full title: God's Mercy
• Author: Kerstin Ekman, Linda Schenck
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• EAN: 9780803224582
• ISBN: 0803224583
• ID: 11522431
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Weight: 539 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 29 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2009

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