Hanne Orstavik

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The PastorPaperback, 19 October 2021

The Pastor
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Print Length
280 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Date Published
19 Oct 2021
ISBN-10
1953861083
ISBN-13
9781953861085

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A major work of contemporary fiction from a "leading light of international literature" (Publishers Weekly, starred review), Hanne Ørstavik, whose last novel, Love, won the PEN Translation Prize.

A thought-provoking, existential novel - as Liv searches for meaning and identity in her own life, she must find the words to connect, comfort and lead others.

Liv, an intense and reticent theologian, moves to a bitterly cold fishing village to take up a post as the church's new pastor following the death of her friend, Kristiane. In the upper rooms of a large house overlooking the fjord, Liv plans her sermons and studies the violent interplay of Norway's Christian colonial past. She trails downstairs into the apartment below for dinners and breakfasts with a widow and her two children. As Liv becomes acquainted with the villagers and their own private tragedies, memories bloom in passages that urgently question the unpredictable bedrock of language, and the peculiar channels of imagined experience as it might have been, if only there had been a different set of words, or an outstretched hand.

The past mingles darkly with the present, cascading in chilling images: a dog lying dead in the snowy plains, Kristiane's teeth flashing as she laughs, a procession of singing, knife-carrying protesters curving along a river's edge. Martin Aitken's translation of this extraordinary novel rings with the brilliance and rigor of a master.

Product Details

Author:
Hanne Orstavik
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
19 October 2021
Dimensions:
16.66 x 14.2 x 1.93 cm
ISBN-10:
1953861083
ISBN-13:
9781953861085
Language:
English
Pages:
280
Weight:
285.76 gm

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