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Ørstavik, Hanne, 1969-
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Students -- Fiction.
Women clergy -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Norway -- Fiction.
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Ørstavik, Hanne, 1969-
Students -- Fiction.
Women clergy -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Norway -- Fiction.
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The pastor /
Hanne
Ørstavik
; translated from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken.
by
Ørstavik
,
Hanne
,
1969-
Archipelago Books, 2021.
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FICTION ORS
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Students -- Fiction.
Women clergy -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Germany -- Fiction.
Norway -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781953861085 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st Archipelago Books ed.
Description:
270 p. ; 17 cm.
Notes:
First published by Forlaget Oktober AS, 2004.
Translated from the Norwegian.
Summary:
Liv is fascinated by words and their edges and echoes. As a student of theology in Germany, she researches how the language of the Bible was wielded against the indigenous Sami people during the 1800s. Liv excavates their past and her own, searching for meaning in a scene of Sami children gathering cloudberries and figs, from the memory of the magical weaver woman from an Astrid Lindgren fairytale she read as a child, or in how misstep and misunderstandings can lead to isolation and pain. With each new experience and confrontation, fresh questions about scripture and empathy and who she is arise. She wonders how "language, in all its plasticity, became so stiff and unbending," and slowly, she bends it back toward her, building her own vocabulary of healing.
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Psychological fiction.
Norwegian fiction -- Translations into English.
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