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ISBN: 9788205503588
Author : Herbjørg Wassmo
Published: 2017
Number of pages: 473
Language: Scandinavian languages
Format: Hardback
Author : Herbjørg Wassmo
Published: 2017
Number of pages: 473
Language: Scandinavian languages
Format: Hardback
Description
A new, independent instalment in the large, epic account of Dina and her Family
The year is 1890 and Dina Grønelv is to be buried; she did not survive the serious injuries the fire at Reinsnes inflicted on her. In the crowded church her grandchild Karna stands in front of the congregation, and testifies to what was on Dina’s mind before she died: the two men she killed. After having confessed her grandmother’s sins, Karna falls silent, and shuts out the outside world.
Neither her father Benjamin nor her stepmother Anna are able to get through to her, and the silence soon also engulfs the relationship between them. Before the fire, Anna discovered that Benjamin had never quite finished his relationship with his childhood sweetheart Hanna, and she finds it difficult to forgive him. When Karna tries to take her own life with a knife, Anna makes a decision: she will take Karna with her to her home city of Copenhagen, to a hospital where the mentally ill are treated.
In doing so, she places a distance between herself and Benjamin, and while following the developments in Karna’s fragile mind, she has the time to think about who she is and what to do with her life. And she also meets the doctor treating Karna: Joakim.
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