From the National Nordic Museum: Meet the Author
Tue, Jan 31
|Virtual event
Time & Location
Jan 31, 2023, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Virtual event
About the Event
Join Dr. Elizabeth DeNoma (DeNoma Literary Services) in virtual conversation with Ann-Helen Laestadius, author of the spellbinding Swedish novel Stolen.
Non-Members of the Nordic Museum: $5.00 Members: Free
About the Book:
Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesbø in this spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law.
It is winter, north of the Arctic Circle. A few hours of pale light are all the sun has to offer before the landscape is once more wrapped in darkness. This the land of the Sámi, Scandinavia’s indigenous people. One day when she goes skiing along, nine-year-old Elsa—daughter of reindeer herders—witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nástegallu.