| Record Number |
773050 |
| ISBN |
9780857056030 (paperback) |
| 9780857056047 (hardback) |
| Author |
Mytting, Lars, 1968- author. |
| Title |
The sixteen trees of the Somme / Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Paul Russell Garrett. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus, 2017 |
| ©2017 |
| Pagination etc. |
403 pages : map ; 24 cm. |
| Contents note |
"A novel" -- cover. |
| First published in the Norwegian language as Svøm med dem som drukner by Gyldendal Norsk Forlag A. S. in 2014. |
| Summary Note |
Edvard grows up on a remote mountain farmstead in Norway with his taciturn grandfather, Sverre. The death of his parents, when he was three years old, has always been shrouded in mystery - he has never been told how or where it took place and has only a distant memory of his mother. But he knows that the fate of his grandfather's brother, Einar, is somehow bound up with this mystery. One day a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death, a meticulous, beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Perhaps Einar is not dead after all. Edvard's desperate quest to unlock the family's tragic secrets takes him on a long journey - from Norway to the Shetlands, and to the battlefields of France - to the discovery of a very unusual inheritance. |
| Language note |
Translated from the Norwegian. |
| Subject |
Families -- Norway -- Fiction |
| Family secrets -- Fiction |
| Great-uncles -- Fiction |
| Art objects -- Fiction |
| Norway -- Fiction |
| Added Author |
Garrett, Paul Russell translator. |
| Shelf Location |
F MYTT |
