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1944, det nordøstlige Lapland: En ung finsk mand arbejder som tolk i en tyskledet fangelejr. Her bliver han vidne til og medskyldig i de umenneskeligheder, der er hverdag i lejren. 1947, det vestlige Lapland: En kvinde ankommer med sit fotoudstyr til Enontekiö. Hun skal dokumentere samernes liv, men har også en anden dagsorden: at finde sin mand, der forsvandt under krigen. LAND AF SNE OG ASKE er en roman om en kvindes søgen og en mands moralske kvaler. Den golde fortælling om dybe traumer, folkesorg og fangelejrenes hemmeligheder er en berusende læseoplevelse. “Et solidt og intenst thrillerplot ... Land af sne og aske beskriver ambitiøst og smukt det komplekse landkort, som Lapland var i 1940erne.” Helsingin Sanomat “Rautiainen giver samerne stemme fremfor at skildre dem som stiltiende eller passive ofre ... Romanen peger ikke fingre, men giver stof til eftertanke.” Loostâš Vinder af Savonia Prisen:“En storslået debutroman som bringer ufortalte og svære temaer fra Finlands historie frem i lyset, såsom de tyskledede fangelejre, finske nazisympatier, koloniseringen af samernes land. Den smukke, poetiske beskrivelse af Laplands natur og den kærlighedshistorie, der udvikler sig i baggrunden, balancerer krigens grusomhed.” Savonia Prisens jury “Læseren vender siderne i rekordfart.” Savon Sanomat
A hauntingly beautiful, gripping novel about Lapland's buried history of Nazi crimes against the Sami peopleWinner of the Savonia PrizeFinnish Lapland, 1944: a young soldier is called to work as an interpreter at a Nazi prison camp. Surrounded by cruelty and death, he struggles to hold on to his humanity. When peace comes, the crimes are buried beneath the snow and ice.A few years later, journalist Inkeri is assigned to investigate the rapid development of remote Western Lapland. Her real motivation is more personal: she is following a lead on her husband, who disappeared during the war. Finding a small community riven with tension and suspicion of outsiders, Inkeri slowly begins to uncover traces of disturbing facts that were never supposed to come to light.From this starkly beautiful polar landscape emerges a story of silenced histories and ongoing oppression, of human brutality and survival.
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