End of Drum-Time

Title: End of Drum-Time Author: Hanna Pylväinen ISBN: 9781250871817 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks Published: 2024 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Fiction 1617703 Publisher Description: FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD An epic love story in the vein of Cold Mountain and The Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a minister's daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native Sámi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivvár, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasse's daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something that ultimatel