Planterhaug

In spring the old drunk Nilsen dies in Planterhaug, a Norwegianised Sámi village in Ofoten. No one imagines anything criminal has happened, but the following autumn Inspector Huuva of the Oslo criminal police arrives to investigate. He is determined to uncover the truth about the village, about his own father's fractured family, and about who or what is holding the village down. On the way he meets a six-fingered girl, a soul-seer, the pig farmer Josva, the primeval frog Cuoppomáddu and a remarkable series of offal-based meals. But how do you uncover the truth in a village where it has long been repressed and silenced? A novel about being Sámi and wanting to find home, however battered.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

187 pages in the original

Genres

Crime (assigned by AI)

Set in

Norway

First published

2025 by Cappelen Damm

Author's age

49 when first published

ISBN

9788202855130 (original)