Linnea Hartsuyker

The Half-Drowned King

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Produktbeschreibung

A Viking Game of Thrones packed with fantastic story-telling, intrigue and a vivid evocation of another time and place

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 241mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 734g
• ISBN-13: 9781408708798
• ISBN-10: 1408708795
• Artikelnr.: 48349327

Autorenporträt

Linnea Hartsuyker is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA program and Cornell University's Engineering school, and has been researching the rise and reign of Harald Fairhair since she first discovered she was descended from him at the age of seventeen, when her family traced its ancestry back through 1200 years of Swedish and Norwegian church records. Since then she has read extensively of Icelandic sagas, kayaked and skied the fjordland settings for this novel, and even become proficient in lifting Husafjell stones, as the Vikings did to become stronger.

Rezensionen

An unusual Viking saga. Most such fiction is written by men and tells largely of blood-soaked battles, the lopping off of limbs and disembowellings. Hartsuyker's book has its share of violent action as it relates the story of its hero Ragnvald Eysteinsson, who survives a near-drowning by his enemies to hitch his fortunes to the rising star of Harald Fairhair, a teenage warrior and would-be king of all Norway in the ninth century. It also has several strands of narrative - mostly focused on Ragnvald's sister Svanhild as she strives to assert herself in a male dominated world - that are less predictable. This is a novel that creates a more nuanced and richer portrait of Viking society, with its complex web of rituals, laws and debts of honour, than the genre usually provides Sunday Times