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The mercies : a novel

Title

The mercies : a novel / Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

Author

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990-

Publication

New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2020.
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Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	JFE 20-6005	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Description

345 pages; 25 cm

Summary

After a storm has killed off all the island's men, two women in a 1600s Norwegian coastal village struggle to survive against both natural forces and the men who have been sent to rid the community of alleged witchcraft.
Finnmark, Norway, 1617. Forty fishermen, including Maren Magnusdatter's brother and father, are drowned and left broken on the rocks below. The women of the tiny Arctic town of Vardø must fend for themselves. Three years later Absalom Cornet comes from Scotland, where he burned witches in the northern isles. His young Norwegian wife, Ursa, sees something she has never seen before: independent women. But Absalom sees only a place untouched by God, and flooded with a mighty evil. Maren and Ursa are drawn to one another in ways that surprise them both, but Absalom's iron rule threatening Vardø's very existence. -- adapted from jacket.

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Genre/Form

Call Number

JFE 20-6005

ISBN

LCCN

2019956201

OCLC

1104652885

Author

Hargrave, Kiran Millwood, 1990- author.

Title

The mercies : a novel / Kiran Millwood Hargrave.

Publisher

New York : Little, Brown and Company, a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc., 2020.

Copyright Date

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1600-1699

Research Call Number

JFE 20-6005