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Title: Sixteen Trees of the Somme, the
Author: MYTTING LARS
Illustrator: GARRETT PAUL RUSSELL (TRANS)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 09/10/2018
Imprint: MACLEHOSE PRESS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
By Norway’s bestselling novelist and the author of NORWEGIAN WOOD, a family story of epic scale.
\”An intricate story about war, family, secrets and, yes, wood … An engaging, satisfying read\” The Times
\”So cleverly plotted, and it builds up such effortless dramatic momentum as it zeroes in on its conclusion\” Scotsman
Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery – he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of his mother.
But he knows that the fate of his grandfather’s brother, Einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery. One day a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death – a meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Perhaps Einar is not dead after all.
Edvard’s desperate quest to unlock the family’s tragic secrets takes him on a long journey – from Norway to the Shetlands, and to the battlefields of France – to the discovery of a very unusual inheritance. The Sixteen Trees of the Somme is about the love of wood and finding your own self, a beautifully intricate and moving tale that spans an entire century.
Mytting’s book is as much a romantic historical thriller as it is a book of promise, a page-turner as it is a reflective journey into selfhood, history, life’s meaning and individual moral responsibility – Mika Provata-Carlone, Bookanista
Translated from the Norwegian by Paul Russell Garrett
ISBN: 9780857056061
Weight: 300gr
Pages: 480