The mercies : a novel /
Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Forty fishermen, including Maren Magnusdatter's brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. The women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the n...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.,
[2020].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Forty fishermen, including Maren Magnusdatter's brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. The women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. His young Norwegian wife, Ursa, sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, but Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. |
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| Physical Description: | 345 pages ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780316529259 0316529257 9780316529235 0316529230 |