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The Half-Drowned King
Taschenbuch von Linnea Hartsuyker
Sprache: Englisch

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'Like Game of Thrones, only more unscrupulous' Wall Street Journal

Ragnvald Eysteinsson grew upbelieving that he would one day take his dead father's place as chief of his family's lands. But after a murderous attack on his way home from a raiding excursion, he must confront his stepfather's betrayal, and find a way to protect his birthright. It is no easy feat in Viking-Age Norway, where men kill over parcels of land, and a prophesied high king is rising.

But where Ragnvald is expected to fight, and even die, for his honour, Svanhild is expected only to marry well. It's not a fate she relishes, and when the chance to leave her stepfather's cruelty comes at the hand of her brother's arch-rival, Svanhild is forced to make a terrible choice: family or freedom.

'Suspenseful, intriguing, gripping' New York Journal of Books

'An unusual Viking saga . . . creates a more nuanced and richer portrait of Viking society, with its complex web of rituals, laws and debts of honour, than the genre usually provides' Sunday Times

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'Like Game of Thrones, only more unscrupulous' Wall Street Journal

Ragnvald Eysteinsson grew upbelieving that he would one day take his dead father's place as chief of his family's lands. But after a murderous attack on his way home from a raiding excursion, he must confront his stepfather's betrayal, and find a way to protect his birthright. It is no easy feat in Viking-Age Norway, where men kill over parcels of land, and a prophesied high king is rising.

But where Ragnvald is expected to fight, and even die, for his honour, Svanhild is expected only to marry well. It's not a fate she relishes, and when the chance to leave her stepfather's cruelty comes at the hand of her brother's arch-rival, Svanhild is forced to make a terrible choice: family or freedom.

'Suspenseful, intriguing, gripping' New York Journal of Books

'An unusual Viking saga . . . creates a more nuanced and richer portrait of Viking society, with its complex web of rituals, laws and debts of honour, than the genre usually provides' Sunday Times

[thumbnail of author pic on Biblio + credit]

Über den Autor
Linnea Hartsuyker is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA program and Cornell University's Engineering school, and has been researching the rise and reign of Harald Fairhair since she first discovered she was descended from him at the age of seventeen, when her family traced its ancestry back through 1200 years of Swedish and Norwegian church records. Since then she has read extensively of Icelandic sagas, kayaked and skied the fjordland settings for this novel, and even become proficient in lifting Husafjell stones, as the Vikings did to become stronger.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 550 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349142531
ISBN-10: 034914253X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hartsuyker, Linnea
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 202 x 128 x 52 mm
Von/Mit: Linnea Hartsuyker
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,383 kg
Artikel-ID: 111778698
Über den Autor
Linnea Hartsuyker is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA program and Cornell University's Engineering school, and has been researching the rise and reign of Harald Fairhair since she first discovered she was descended from him at the age of seventeen, when her family traced its ancestry back through 1200 years of Swedish and Norwegian church records. Since then she has read extensively of Icelandic sagas, kayaked and skied the fjordland settings for this novel, and even become proficient in lifting Husafjell stones, as the Vikings did to become stronger.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik: Belletristik
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: 550 S.
ISBN-13: 9780349142531
ISBN-10: 034914253X
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Hartsuyker, Linnea
Hersteller: Little, Brown Book Group
Maße: 202 x 128 x 52 mm
Von/Mit: Linnea Hartsuyker
Erscheinungsdatum: 07.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,383 kg
Artikel-ID: 111778698
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