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Ædnan : an epic / Linnea Axelsson ; translated from Swedish by Saskia Vogel.

by Axelsson, Linnea, 1980-

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Alfred A. Knopf, 2024.

Sami (European people) -- Fiction.

Women, Sami -- Fiction.

Reindeer herders -- Fiction.

Generations -- Fiction.

Indigenous peoples -- Sweden -- Fiction.

Sweden -- Fiction.

9780593535455 (hc.)

Alternate title:

Aednan : an epic

1st American ed.

426 p. ; 24 cm.

"This is a Borzoi book"

Translated from the Swedish.

"The tale begins in the 1910s, as Ristin and her family migrate their herd of reindeer to summer grounds. Along the way, forced to separate due to the newly formed border between Sweden and Norway, Ristin loses one of her sons in the aftermath of an accident, a grief that will ripple across the rest of the book. In the wake of this tragedy, Ristin struggles to manage what's left of her family and her community. In the 1970s, Lise, as part of a new generation of Sámi grappling with questions of identity and inheritance, reflects on her traumatic childhood, when she was forced to leave her parents and was placed in a Nomad School to be stripped of the language of her ancestors. Finally, in the 2010s we meet Lise's daughter, Sandra, an embodiment of Indigenous resilience, an activist fighting for reparations in a highly publicized land rights trial, in a time when the Sámi language is all but lost. Weaving together the voices of half a dozen characters, from elders to young people unsure of their heritage, Axelsson has created a moving family saga around the consequences of colonial settlement"--Amazon.

Domestic fiction.

Novels in verse.

Swedish fiction -- Translations into English.

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