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The pastor

Title
The pastor / Hanne Ørstavik ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
Author
Ørstavik, Hanne, 1969-
Publication
  • Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2021.
  • ©2021

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TextUse in library JFC 22-212Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Additional Authors
Aitken, Martin
Description
270 pages; 17 cm
Summary
"Liv is fascinated by words and their edges and echoes. As a student of theology in Germany, she researches how the language of the Bible was wielded against the indigenous Sami people during the 1800s. Liv excavates their past and her own, searching for meaning in a scene of Sami children gathering cloudberries and figs, from the memory of the magical weaver woman from an Astrid Lindgren fairytale she read as a child, or in how misstep and misunderstandings can lead to isolation and pain. With each new experience and confrontation, fresh questions about scripture and empathy and who she is arise. She wonders how "language, in all its plasticity, became so stiff and unbending," and slowly, she bends it back toward her, building her own vocabulary of healing"--
Uniform Title
Presten. English
Alternative Title
Presten.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Fiction.
  • Novels.
Call Number
JFC 22-212
ISBN
  • 9781953861085
  • 1953861083
LCCN
  • 2021026732
  • 40030815222
OCLC
1230461468
Author
Ørstavik, Hanne, 1969- author.
Title
The pastor / Hanne Ørstavik ; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
Publisher
Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2021.
Copyright Date
©2021
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Aitken, Martin, translator.
Other Standard Identifier
40030815222
Research Call Number
JFC 22-212
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