Lapland, 1897. He stared down at the man lying on the reindeer skin, his clerical clothes so stained, the fair hair spread in a parody of a halo, matted curls crawling with lice, arms out-flung like the crucified Messiah. Was this what the girl he loved so passionately had sent him two thousand miles to rescue and bring back to her, a quest with the promise of marriage as his prize? How could this man be anything but a dangerous, even fatal, burden in the desperate struggle to find a way to safety across such a vast, deceptively beautiful wilderness? Set around this epic journey, "A pathless Land" is a compelling love story and a poignant search for personal truth.
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I felt plunged into a powerful place - and was swept along. Immensely worthwhile. --- Piers Plowright, triple Prix Italia winner and Radio 4's 'Saturday Review' critic.
A gripping, erudite and highly original journey into the heart of Nordic Darkness. Porecky explores issues of spirituality, culture and fanaticism with the flair of a born storyteller. --- Liz Jensen, author of 'The Ninth Life of Louis Drax'.
A gripping, erudite and highly original journey into the heart of Nordic Darkness. Porecky explores issues of spirituality, culture and fanaticism with the flair of a born storyteller. --- Liz Jensen, author of 'The Ninth Life of Louis Drax'.
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Robin Porecky (pronounced Poretzki) is of Polish origin, but was born and brought up in England. He now works in northern Sweden as a knife-maker. 'A Pathless Land' is his first novel.
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a pathless land,
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this is a dark tale that leads the reader into the depths of the despair of the hero as he searches in the wilderness of Lapland for a self-proclaimed " Son of God" confronting his own religious demons in the hope of winning true love and salvation. This was one book I stayed up all night to read as it raced from page to page.
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