Fiction. A powerful novel from the North, winner of national book awards both in Norway and Sweden. Its hero is Edmund Saknevik, orphan, outcast and seeker, who has returned from exile to Norway to farm his ancestral estate. Edmund's attempt to reclaim his history, his language and his purpose in life, as well as to preserve his country's culture and environment, retells the timeless and universal story of a man seeking to regain paradise, to make a home in the world and to redeem his past mistakes, both his own and those of his family. Translated by Frankie Belle Shakelford.
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Edvard Hoem's award-winning Ave Eva: A Norwegian Tragedy, translated by Frankie Belle Shackelford, follows Edmund Saknevik, the exiled "son of a traitor" who has returned to his ancestral farm on Norway's western coast. He must come to terms with his homeland's repression of present shames (such as the oil industry) and past ones (such as the Nazi occupation). Both intimate and sprawling, personal and political, the novel offers a detailed portrait of a country and a people unfamiliar to most American readers a few may find it slow going, but it will fascinate others.
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"...this book could be an important new addition to Scandinavian literature in translation courses of all kinds." -- Nortana Newsletter, Fall 2001 (reviewed by Marte Hult of Minnesota University)
"This is a book I will share with friends and highly recommend to all." -- Collages & Bricolages, 2002
"This is a book I will share with friends and highly recommend to all." -- Collages & Bricolages, 2002
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I work for the publisher, but that's not why I adore this book (I'm on my second reading of this book). I adore it because the main character's internal struggle, his terrible and constant anxiety to fulfill his incomplete dreams, are, in turns, unsettling and also friendly to my own anxieties.That character--Edmund Saknevik--abandons his name and family for a quest to revive his country's oldest dialect and rural legacy and is swept into an increasingly powerful current of desire for a fiery woman and desire for redemption. His is a story of a man who seeks to return to the Garden, but only ends up returned to an internally destructive inferno. The translation from Norwegian is gripping and seamless and never confuses or puzzles the reader. If I don't read this book a third time before I die, I would be surprised.
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