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The Reindeer Hunters

The Sister Bells Trilogy Vol. 2
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The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting is a historical fiction novel set in early 20th-century Norway. It follows the intertwined lives of characters navigating personal and social challenges against the backdrop of a changing world. As modernity encroaches on traditional ways, the story explores themes of family, tradition, and survival in a captivating rural landscape.
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This book may appeal to you if you're intrigued by Nordic landscapes and family sagas with a historical twist. It offers a rich narrative woven with tradition and change, capturing the quiet, enduring struggles of life in the rural north. If you appreciate deep character development and captivating storytelling set against a backdrop of Norwegian history, you'll likely find this tale absorbing.

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Conceived on an epic scale by Norway's bestselling author, The Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake

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Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match — JO NESBO

The Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake.

The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in the hills near Butangen, having withdrawn from his community. He is drawn to freedom, to fishing and reindeer hunting, and one day meets a stranger over the body of a huge reindeer buck.

Outside the new church in Butangen, Pastor Kai Schweigaard still cares for Astrid Hekne's grave. The village's overworked priest is tormented by his old betrayal, which led to death and to the separation of two powerful church bells cast in memory of two sisters in Astrid's family. Kai is set on finding an ancient tapestry made by the sisters - the Hekne Weave - in the hope that it will reveal how he can remedy his iniquities.

Conceived on an epic scale by Norway's bestselling author, The Reindeer Hunters is a novel about love and bitter rivalries, sorrow and courage, about history and myth, and a country as it enters a new era, about the first electric light and the Great War in Europe, where brother stands against brother.

Translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin

Series: The Sister Bells Trilogy

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  • The Reindeer Hunters
    Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match — JO NESBO The Reindeer Hunters is the second in a thrilling historical trilogy that began with The Bell in the Lake. The year is 1903, and twenty-two years have passed since Astrid Hekne died in childbirth. Her son Jehans lives on a modest smallholding up in...
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  • The Bell in the Lake
    Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel," — MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees "Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match," — JO NESBO "An exquisitely atmospheric novel. The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you,...
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    The Night of the Scourge
    A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy. Butangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once...
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  • The Night of the Scourge
    A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII-era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy. Butangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once...
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The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting is highly praised for its depth of storytelling and emotional resonance. Reviewers commend Mytting's ability to create authentic characters and a compelling narrative steeped in cultural and historical context. The novel explores themes of superstition and change, weaving a rich and intricate tale that captivates the reader.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529416084

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 13 October 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: MacLehose Press

Contributors:

  • Translated by Deborah Dawkin
  • Translated by Deborah Dawkin

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 320g

Pages: 448

About the Author

Lars Mytting, a novelist and journalist, was born in Favang, Norway, in 1968. His novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme) was awarded the Norwegian National Booksellers' Award and has been bought for film. Norwegian Wood has become an international bestseller, and was the Bookseller Industry Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016. His novel The Bell in the Lake was a number one bestseller in Norway and nominated for the Norwegian National Bookseller's Award 2018.

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