Summary
Bernard du Boucheron: The Short Snake
This book won the Grand Prix of the French Academy for the best novel in 2004. A small people, originally from Europe, settled in the "north of the world", in an icy solitude, where they try to survive. However, over the centuries the ties thinned and then broke. Oblivion and abandonment threaten. The short snake is a ship specially commissioned and built at the end of the 14th century, to go in search of that lost community and bring it help. Abbot Montanus, in charge of leading an expedition to restore the diocese and revive the faith, recounts the outrageous trials he had to face in order to achieve his goal...
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