Lit in Translation

The Bear Hunter's Daughters: A Tale of Seven Sisters

Björnjägarens döttrar

Anneli Jordahl (born 1960)

Translated by Nichola Smalley

English editions

In English

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Rumours have long circulated about the seven Leskinen sisters, daughters of a famous bear hunter. Supposedly they live by themselves in the backwoods, hunting, swimming and fighting, getting roaring drunk on home-distilled spirits, and sometimes dancing half-clothed at the market after selling bearskins. A woman takes it on herself to tell their story for the parish history society. Why did they never attend school? Why live so far from any town, and act like rough lads? Reworking a classic Finnish novel about seven brothers, and setting it in the present in unnamed parts of Finland, the book explores rage and sorrow, solitude and belonging, rivalry between siblings and an intensified sense of being alive in the wild.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
333 pages in the original
Genres
Family, Nature (assigned by AI)
Set in
Finland
First published
2022 by Norstedts
Author's age
62 when first published
ISBN

9789113118383 (original)

9780063338845 (HarperVia, United States)