Synopsis
An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.
1728: The doomed Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country’s allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a blacksmith,...
Details
31 March 2022576 pages
9781529014341Imprint: Picador
Reviews
Praise for The Prophets of Eternal Fjord:
Guardian
'From the outset of his career, Kim Leine established himself as a Scandinavian literary figure without precedent.'
A superb novel . . . A raw, hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge . . . Has a grandeur and a compass that few novels this year will match.Sunday Times
