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Alkemistens dotter
Title translated by AI:“The Alchemist's Daughter”
Carl-Michael Edenborg · 47 when first published
Novel · 379 pages · Historical, Speculative
AI-generated summary:Late in the 18th century Rebis Aurora Drakenstierna, last of a line of alchemists, grows up at Hermestorp under skies blackened by the furnace. When her father dies, she is left with a secret: she has been chosen for a task that concerns all humanity.