Gifted by the publisher

1910s. Reindeer herder Ristin and her family are separated due to the newly formed borders between Sweden and Norway. A terrible accident ruptures the family, and this inextricable loss reverberates through generations.

ÆDNAN is the first epic I've read in English, and it definitely won't be my last. I had some reservations going in. As an ESL reader, I wasn't sure how much I'd actually understand with the sparse writing. I also didn't have the best experience with another book about reindeer herders—THE END OF DRUM-TIME (Hanna Pylväinen), despite it being short-listed for the NBA