The dark light
By: Mette Newth ; translated by Faith Ingwersen.
Edition: 1st English language ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
Subjects: Leprosy -- Fiction.; Death -- Fiction.; Christian life -- Fiction.; Diseases -- Fiction.; Norway -- Fiction.
Description: While enduring a bleak existence in a hospital for lepers in Norway during the early 1800s, thirteen-year-old Tora tries to find meaning in a life surrounded by death.
Notes: "First published in 1995"--verso t.p.