The Colony Of Good Hope Kim Leine Picador Αγγλικά Βιβλία Fiction Historical Novels

An Immensely Powerful Epic Of Colonialism Set In 18Th-Century Greenland About The Great Forces Nature Meeting Cultures And Fathers Sons 1728: Doomed Danish King Fredrik Iv Sends A Governor To Establish Colony Hopes Exploiting Country\ S Allegedly Vast Natural Resources Few Merchants Barber-Surgeon Two Trainee Priests Blacksmith Some Carpenters Soldiers Dozen Hastily Married Couples Go With Him Missionary Priest Hans Egede Has Already Been For Several Years When New Colonists Arrive He Established Mission There But Converts Are Among Those Most Hostile Is Shaman Aappaluttoq Whose Own Son Was Taken By Raised Christian Faith As His Thus Rift Between Men Ways Life Born Newly Arrived - Composed Women Plucked From Prison Quickly Sink Into Almost Complete Dissolution Soon Unsanitary Conditions Illness Death Bring Its Knees Through Starvation Epidemics That Beset Remains Steadfast Determination Willing Sacrifice Even Loves Sake Translated Martin Aitken Kim Leine\ Good Hope Explores What Happens Confront One Another Distant Under Harshest Overwhelming Meet Vices Man Σελίδες: 576 Έτος Έκδοσης: 2022 Διαστάσεις: 15 3X15 3Cm