{"product_id":"first-comes-summer-paperback","title":"First Comes Summer - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMaria Hesselager\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMartin Aitken\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe spellbinding story of a young woman's dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn their remote Viking settlement, Folkví and her brother, Áslakr, have always been close--unnaturally close. They've grown more intimate still as Folkví learns her shaman mother's craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. Áslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkví to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, he's done the unthinkable: He's found someone else to love. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sick with grief, Folkví rages to the gods where they sit at the foot of an ancient tree, contemplating the twisted passions of humans that play out in the face of an ever-approaching end of days. Will none of them save her now? Very well, Folkví will save herself. The wedding date is set. But first comes a fateful summer. . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Deeply unsettling and brilliantly imagined, \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e captures the terror of losing the world you've always known--and the uncanny extremes to which you might go to hold on to it.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaria Hesselager \u003c\/b\u003ehas won and been shortlisted for several Scandinavian prizes. \u003ci\u003eFirst Comes Summer\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel. She lives in Copenhagen. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eMartin Aitken \u003c\/b\u003ehas translated numerous novels from Danish and Norwegian. He received the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize, among many other honors.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47256001970425,"sku":"9780593542613","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/rDw-AMEIW9780593542613.webp?v=1768730821","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/first-comes-summer-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}