Lit in Translation

The Pastor

Presten

Hanne Ørstavik (born 1969)

Translated by Martin Aitken

English editions

In English

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Liv, thirty-five, is the pastor of a small town in Finnmark, where she once researched the Sami uprising of 1852; one Sunday after mass she is called out because a young local girl has hanged herself.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
233 pages in the original
Set in
Norway
First published
2004 by Oktober
Author's age
35 when first published
ISBN

9788249502745 (original)

9781953861085 (Archipelago Books, United States)