Book description
Longlisted for the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister’s daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle
In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran…
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1 author picked The End of Drum-Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I loved this book for very personal reasons. I am Swedish, born on Sámi land (problematically still called Lappland). I am not Sámi. The Sámi people are Europe’s only indigenous group.
This lyrical book shines a light on some deep history, while also being a crazy good love story (and who doesn’t love that?). Here is a summary, which I admit that I cribbed straight from the publisher’s site (Macmillan). I loved this book for its characters and its plot. It will take you someplace you have never been before, and will inform what you might think about this region…
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