Bibliograph

The bell in the lake, a novel, Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin

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The bell in the lake, a novel, Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The bell in the lake

Oclc number

1195815562

Responsibility statement

Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin

Series statement

Sister bells trilogy, [1]

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church, with its pagan deity effigies and supernatural bells. When the pastor makes a deal that brings an outsider, a sophisticated German architect, into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between past and future, as dark forces come into play"--, Provided by publisher

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