Arvola Ingeborg: Nož iz ognja

Name: Nož iz ognja
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Author: Arvola Ingeborg

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Author: Arvola Ingeborg
Publisher: Iris Illyrica
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Condition: Dobro
Code: 79625

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Nož iz ognja

Arvola Ingeborg

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Ingeborg Arvola: Knife from Fire

*The book is underlined with a ballpoint pen.

The year is 1859 and Brita Caisa Seipajarvi, who was disciplined by the church for having an affair with a married man, puts on her skis and sets off on a long journey from Finland to Norway with her two children. Their destination is Bugoynes where, they say, the sea is full of cod.

Knife from fire is the first title from the series Ruijan on the beach - Songs from the Arctic, about the Finnish Kven and the area where they live. Arvalo's writing evokes the smell of blood after slaughtering reindeer, the taste of blueberries, the feeling of the coldness of snow and the warmth of fire. The love story is set in Queen's society in the 1860s, where fishing and work are the backbone of everyday life. The people there have a strong faith in God, and equally passionately believe in superstitions. Many dream of America, but most of them settle for a weekly sauna in a small fishing village.

Arvola describes in detail the main character Brita Caisa, her great-great-grandmother, her belief in the supernatural and her ability to care for the sick, her respect for tradition, but also her desire for knowledge. In Knife from the Fire, Arvola gives voice to people outcasts from society, nomads who are forced to adapt to national laws and regulations, and women who await the return of men from the sea.

Wherever I wanted to go. All the roads, all the stars, all the traces of the aurora found me at home, all the signs, everything to be interpreted, all the blue, every swamp, every cliff, every bend, every pond. All the fists I ever soiled were a map to the one who knows how to read it, everything I read, all the paths and intersections I found, even the ones I didn't understand.

But this outside. Sea. I'm not attracted to it. I close myself to the sea.

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