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In 1859 Brita Caisa Seipajærvi skis from Finland to Norway with her two sons. Strong and able to heal animals and people, she leaves the church where she did penance for an affair with a married man, heading for Bugøynes, where her brother lives and the sea is said to boil with cod. The novel opens a series about the Kven people and their northern landscape.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

439 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Migration, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Finland, Norway, 1859

Series

Ruijan rannalla – Sanger fra ishavet, book 1

First published

2022 by Cappelen Damm

Author's age

48 when first published

ISBN

9788202762742 (original)