7/28/2023 0 Comments Let it snow book fair![]() “Tina Harnesk plays with language and lets the details speak like when a half-eaten box of raisins found underneath a reindeer pelt gets to symbolize the heart wrenching loss of a child. ![]() And I find that so incredibly beautiful that I sometimes have to pause to let the text sink in And then there’s so much humor, and an ingenuity and little twists. Not necessarily in a way that means you have to read between the lines, but rather as if the silence is allowed to speak. In one way it’s a serious and dark tale, but a large portion of the book is told in what is not written. People and encounters are intertwined in a remarkable way. But underneath the cheerful exterior rests a grief over the traditional reindeer herding life that was lost.” And how she does it! Her novel is burlesque and daring, populated by colorful, unforgettable characters. Tina Harnesk lives on a mountain outside of Arvidsjaur and has joined the authors who are writing about Sami life and culture. “A debut novel turned sensation at this year’s Frankfurt Book Fair, where it sold to 13 countries. With fantastic twists and turns, an unforgettable cast of colorful characters and a singular lyrical style, this glimmering debut novel is as broad as it is deep. With Those Who Sow in Snow, debut writer Tina Harnesk spins a tall tale that shifts seamlessly between laugh-out loud humor and profound depictions of what it means to love and lose within a family. Together with her new confidant Siré, an operator in the incomprehensible new phone-machine-device, she cooks up a plan to lure men in uniform to their home – a plan that involves setting fire to the barn, and shooting a moose… Biera is considered a Sami clairvoyant and Máriddja decides to follow the lead of something he once told her: that their boy is alive and wearing a uniform. Refusing to have Biera institutionalized, she’s determined to find Heaika-Joná so that he can return and care for his own. But Máriddja is busy making arrangements. She talks to herself, sends inappropriate messages to their neighbors, and burns letters from the authorities. Meanwhile, Biera worries that Máriddja has lost her marbles. When Kaj finds a curious box of Sami handicrafts that his mother left him, an improbable chain of events is set in motion that will ultimately lead him to a life-altering discovery… Laura took the secret of Kaj’s father’s identity to her grave, and while Mimmi longs to start a family of their own, Kaj feels lost not knowing where he comes from. The newly engaged couple Kaj and Mimmi has recently relocated to a small village in the north of Sweden after the death of Kaj’s mother, the enigmatic Laura. There was once a boy whom they loved above all else, but he was taken from them. But Máriddja and Biera were never blessed with little ones. Traditionally, Sami families are large and those who come after are supposed to care for their elders. ![]() The eccentric 85-year-old woman accepts her fate with furious resignation and quickly moves on to more important matters: how to keep her condition from her husband Biera, who is slipping into dementia. ![]() Máriddja has just been told that she doesn’t have long to live. No matter who we become or where we end up, our hearts have a root.” “I don’t think a person ever stops longing for the place where they belong. ![]()
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