Ankomst
Published on 30. June 2020
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978-1-908670-58-8 (ISBN)
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An environmental scientist has chosen to spend the winter on a remote peninsula in the far north of Norway in order to collect data on the activities of the seabird population. She is determined to prove a link between climate change and the decline in numbers of various species. She is also waiting for her lover to arrive. But cut off from human contact, tested by the primal forces of nature, she finds herself drawn into a dark and uncomfortable place that defies scientific logic. As she delves into the past, she
has to face up to her earlier decisions. What are her true motives for coming here? Why has she left her young daughter and ex-husband behind? And will her lover ever join her?
has to face up to her earlier decisions. What are her true motives for coming here? Why has she left her young daughter and ex-husband behind? And will her lover ever join her?
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'This short novel has it all: exquisite storytelling, a perfect plot and a fantastic portrait of a woman. Quite simply a wonderful novel (...) The ending surpasses every crime novel I have read this year.' STEIN ROLL, ADRESSEAVISEN 'Creeping suspense wrapped in elegant prose (...) an intense thriller from the wilderness.' DAGSAVISENMore details
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Gohril Gabrielsen is the author of The Looking-Glass Sisters, published by Peirene Press in 2015. Gabrielsen won Aschehoug's First Book Award in 2008, the Tanum Women Writers Prize in 2010 and the Amalie Skram Prize for her oeuvre in 2016. Ankomst is Gabrielsen's fifth novel and was awarded the 2017 Havmann Prize for Northern Norway Literature.