Forty days without shadow
Subtitle: an Arctic thriller
By: Olivier Truc ; translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie
Contributors: Lalaurie, Louise Rogers, translator
Edition: First trade paperback edition.
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9781455547593; 9781455547586; 9781478983002
Subjects: Murder; Police; Investigation; Reindeer herders; Indigenous peoples; Fiction
Other titles: 40 days without shadwo
Description: "The international award-winning, bestselling phenomenon, now available in English for the first time. Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people. But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection, it was due to go on tour with a UN exhibition in a few short weeks. Hours later, a man is murdered. Mattis, one of the last Sami reindeer herders, is found dead in his gumpy. Are the two crimes connected? In a town fraught with tension--between the indigenous Samis fighting to keep their culture alive, the ultra-Lutheran Scandinavian colonists concerned with propagating their own religion, and the greedy geologists eager to mine the region's ore deposits--it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes. Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway, must find the perpetrators before it's too late... THIS EDITION INCLUDES A READING GROUP GUIDE"--
Notes: "Originally published in France in 2012 under the title Le dernier Lapon by Editions Metailie" -- Title page verso.