Leine Kim
The Colony Of Good Hope
The Colony Of Good Hope
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Description: A superb novel A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge - Sunday Times Books of the Year In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light.1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony in the hopes of exploiting the country's allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants a barber - surgeon two trainee priests a blacksmith some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him. The missionary priest Hans Egede has already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists arrive. He has established a mission there but the converts are few. Among those most hostile to Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men and two ways of life is born. The newly arrived couples men and women plucked from prison quickly sink into a life of almost complete dissolution and soon unsanitary conditions illness and death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the epidemics that beset the colony Egede remains steadfast in his determination willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the sake of his mission. Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken Kim Leine's The Colony of Good Hope explores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony under the harshest conditions the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.
Title: The Colony Of Good Hope
Author(s): Leine Kim
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529014358
Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Date: 2/16/2023
Category: Fiction In Translation
Description: A superb novel A hugely powerful chronicle of lives lived on the edge - Sunday Times Books of the Year In the tradition of Conrad's Heart of Darkness an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encounters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early eighteenth century of brutal clashes between priests and pagans and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light.1728: The Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony in the hopes of exploiting the country's allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants a barber - surgeon two trainee priests a blacksmith some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him. The missionary priest Hans Egede has already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists arrive. He has established a mission there but the converts are few. Among those most hostile to Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men and two ways of life is born. The newly arrived couples men and women plucked from prison quickly sink into a life of almost complete dissolution and soon unsanitary conditions illness and death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the epidemics that beset the colony Egede remains steadfast in his determination willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the sake of his mission. Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken Kim Leine's The Colony of Good Hope explores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony under the harshest conditions the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.
Title: The Colony Of Good Hope
Author(s): Leine Kim
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781529014358
Pages: 576 Pages
Publication Date: 2/16/2023
Category: Fiction In Translation
