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Sickle (Hardcover)
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Sickle (Hardcover)
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Loot Price R460
Discovery Miles 4 600
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Norway. The 1800s. Endre must to take over the family farm from his
father--his father, who swings the sickle and sharpens the scythe,
and says this is the only way in which rocks and stones and mounts
and waves can still be ours. But Endre is strange, he keeps to
himself, unlike his brothers who are merry and full of joy. He
wants to live in the farm without longing to leave, but he is
struggling. Then he meets Abelone--"the bearer of light." Tall and
thin, always sitting with her books, sharper than all she went to
school with, she is about to be a teacher. They appear to come from
different worlds--one from the ancient, traditional, natural world;
the other from the forward-looking world of modernity, of breaking
away, and of renewal. But there is love--great and immediate. With
new ideas and new languages, Abelone opens up the world of
Endre--whose name means "change." A novel written in lyrical verse,
Ruth Lillegraven's Sickle is an unforgettable evocation of longing
and loss, of dreams and reality, and the importance of language
itself.
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