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by Laestadius, Ann-Helen.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Circus, 2023Description: 432 pages ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781526659989 (hbk.) :; 1526659980 (hbk.) :.Subject(s): Sami (European people) -- Fiction | Fiction in translation | General Fiction | Sami (Lappish) | Modern & contemporary fiction | Indigenous peoples | Scandinavia -- FictionSummary: Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sami - Scandinavia's indigenous people - and make their living herding reindeer. One morning when Elsa goes skiing alone, she witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nastegallu. Elsa recognises the man but refuses to tell anyone - least of all the Swedish police force - about what she saw. Instead, she carries her secret as a dark weight on her heart. Elsa comes of age fighting two wars: one within her community, where male elders expect young women to know their place; and against the ever-escalating wave of prejudice and violence against the Sami. When Elsa finds herself the target of the man who killed her reindeer calf all those years ago, something inside of her finally breaks.
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Book - Adult Hardback Southport Library Adult Fiction Checked out 23/10/2024 003113019X
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Translated from the Swedish.

Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sami - Scandinavia's indigenous people - and make their living herding reindeer. One morning when Elsa goes skiing alone, she witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nastegallu. Elsa recognises the man but refuses to tell anyone - least of all the Swedish police force - about what she saw. Instead, she carries her secret as a dark weight on her heart. Elsa comes of age fighting two wars: one within her community, where male elders expect young women to know their place; and against the ever-escalating wave of prejudice and violence against the Sami. When Elsa finds herself the target of the man who killed her reindeer calf all those years ago, something inside of her finally breaks.

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