Aednan

<p><b>A <i>Guardian</i> Top 5 Best Translated Fiction Book of the Year<br>Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature</b></p><p><b>The award-winning, deeply moving novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence of two Indigenous Sámi families over a century</b></p><p>As borders are imposed in northernmost Scandinavia, a reindeer-herding family is ripped apart. A century later, a young Sámi woman leads a bold call for reparations. This majestic verse novel chronicles the fates of two Indigenous families over a hundred years, rescuing from oblivion their stories of loss and resistance.</p><p>As one generation succeeds another, their voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed. Written in sparse, glittering verse that flows like a current,<i>?Ædnan</i> is a profound and moving epic of Sámi life.</p><p>______________________</p><p><b>Winner of the August Prize for Fiction</b></p><p><b>'Full of sonorous power yet shot through with an undeniable intimacy... Extraordinary' <i>Washington Post</i><br>'Lyrical and ambitious' <i>Guardian</i><br>'Crystalline... The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old' Tommy Orange</b></p>