The Bell in the Lake - Lars Mytting gambling husband then confesses her

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Translator: Sophie Hughes

and imperilled masculinity

Magdalena Blazevic's novel is poetic and powerful

One of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from World War 2

The Bell in the Lake - Lars Mytting gambling husband then confesses herNorway, 1880. Winter is hard in Butangen, a village secluded at the end of a valley. The lake has frozen, and for months the ground is too hard to bury the dead. Astrid Hekne dreams of a life beyond all this, beyond marriage, children, and working the land to the end of her days. Then Pastor Kai Schweigaard takes over the small parish, with its 700 year old stave church carved with pagan deities. The two bells in the tower were forged by Astrid's