Ice / Ulla-Lena Lundberg ; translated from the Swedish by Thomas Teal.
Series: Petter Kummel. 2 | Lundberg, Ulla-Lena, Petter Kummel ; 02.Publication details: London : Sort Of Books, 2016.Description: 444 pages ; 20 cmISBN:- 9781908745477 (paperback)
- Kummel, Petter (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Kummel, Petter (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
- Clergy
- Country life
- Families
- Farmers
- Swedish fiction
- Suspense fiction
- Country life -- Sweden -- Fiction
- Clergy -- Sweden -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Farmers -- Fiction
- Swedish fiction -- Translations into English
- Sweden
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Vol info | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | LUN | Kummel Bk.2 | Available | 065596 |
In the summer of 1947, a young priest, Petter, his wife and baby daughter, arrive by mail boat at a tiny island. They are to take over its drafty homestead from where Petter is to minister to the scattered community. In this evocative tale, Ulla-Lena Lundberg draws us into the minutiae of an austere yet purposeful life where the demands of self-sufficiency - cows to milk and sheep to graze - are tempered by the kindness of neighbours. With each season, the family's love of the island grows and when the winter brings ice a new and tentative link is created. Told through the eyes of Petter, the wholehearted if naive novice priest, and Mona, his tough-minded wife, a story unfolds that is as immersive as it is heartrending. Winner of the Finlandia prize and nominated for the Nordic Critics Prize, Ice was a huge bestseller in Finland.
Translated from the Swedish.