Ann-Helén Laestadius

Stolen (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Sprecher: Wheeler, Jade / Übersetzer: Willson-Broyles, Rachel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

NOW A NETFLIX FILM "An extraordinary novel. A coming-of-age-story you will get lost in." Fredrik Backman, internationally bestselling author of The Winners Part coming-of-age novel, part sweeping family saga, and part love song to a disappearing natural world, Stolen is the internationally bestselling and award-winning debut novel about a young Sámi girl and her struggle to defend her family's reindeer herd and their traditional way of lifefor readers of Katherena Vermette and Michelle Good. It is winter, north of the Arctic Circle. A few hours of pale light is all the sun has to offer before the landscape is once more enveloped in complete darkness. This is Sápmi, land of the Sámi, Scandinavia's Indigenous people. Nine-year-old Elsa is the daughter of Sámi reindeer herders. Her community is under constant threatfrom the Swedish population who don't always value the Sámi way of life, from the government that wants to claim their land for mining, and from violent poachers who slaughter their reindeer for sport and for sale on the black market. One morning, when Elsa goes skiing alone, she witnesses a man brutally killing her beloved reindeer calf. Elsa is terrified by what she sees. Fearing for her own life and for the lives of her family members, she remains silent. Ten years pass, and Elsa is now trying to claim a role for herself in her community, where male elders expect young women to know their place. Meanwhile, the hostility toward the Sámi continues to escalate, and the police won't do anything to protect them. When Elsa becomes the target of the man who killed her reindeer calf all those years ago, something inside of her breaks. The guilt, fear, and anger she's been carrying since childhood come crashing over her, leading to a final catastrophic confrontation. Told in three parts, Stolen is a powerful, propulsive, and cinematic novel about a courageous young Sámi woman struggling to defend her Indigenous heritage against the cruelty of the modern world for justice and for the future of her people.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781668005088
• Artikelnr.: 64175754

Autorenporträt

Ann-Helén Laestadius is an author and journalist from Kiruna, Sweden. She is of Sámi and Tornedalian descent, two of Sweden's national minorities. Published in Sweden in January 2021, Stolen is Laestadius's first adult novel. A national number one bestseller in Sweden, it has been sold into twenty-two territories and has been voted the Book of the Year. Laestadius has also been awarded the Adlibris Award for best novel, the Your Book Our Choice Prize given by the Swedish Association for Bookstore Employees, and the Västerbottens-Kuriren Culture Prize. She lives with her family in Solna outside of Stockholm. Stolen is being adapted for a major film for Netflix, to be released in 2024.