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The night of the scourge
Mytting, Lars, 1968-2025
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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 hung in the village's centuries-old stave church. The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come to pass. He delves into the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock. Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis. Astrid joins the Resistance, and Kai is thrown out of his own church. Betrayal within Astrid's own family unites the Sister Bells in Dresden. Special effort and sacrifice, not only from the Hekne family, will be needed to combat the postwar rumours and mistrust.
Main title:
The night of the scourge / Lars Mytting ; translated by Deborah Dawkin.
Author:
Mytting, Lars, 1968-, authorDawkin, Deborah, translator
Work:
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2025.
Collation:
544 pages ; 24 cm.
Series title:
Sister bells trilogy ; 3.
Notes:
Translated from the Norwegian.
ISBN:
9781529435856 (hbk)
Dewey class:
839.8238
Language:
EnglishNorwegian
Subject:
BRN:
848902