num_pages: 344
description: The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Vidar Sundstls critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior and in the regions small towns and deep forests.The grandson of Norwegian immigrants Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has a nearly all-consuming passion for local genealogy and history. But his quiet routines are shattered one morning when he comes upon a Norwegian tourist brutally murdered near a stone cross on the shore of Lake Superior. Another Norwegian man is nearby; covered in blood and staring out across the lake he can only utter the word kjrlighet. Love.FBI agent Bob Lecuyer is assigned to the case as is Norwegian detective Eirik Nyland who is immediately flown in from Oslo. As the investigation progresses Lance begins to make shocking discoveriesincluding one that involves the murder of an Ojibwe man on the very same site more than one hundred years ago. As Lance digs into two murders separated by a century he finds the clues may in fact lead toward someone much closer to home than he could have imagined.The Land of Dreams is a portrait of an extraordinary landscape an exploration of hidden traumas and paths of silence that trouble history and a haunting study in guilt and the bonds of blood.
language: English
title: The Land of Dreams
publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press