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The Colony of Good Hope

by Kim Leine
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781529014341
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Pan Macmillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan Macmillan
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 576
  • Original Price: GBP 14.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 704 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): World Literature / Denmark

An immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.

1728: The doomed Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country's allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him.

The missionary priest Hans Egede has already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists arrive. He has established a mission there, but the converts are few. Among those most hostile Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq, whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men, and two ways of life, is born.

The newly arrived couples composed of men and women plucked from prison quickly sink into a life of almost complete dissolution, and soon unsanitary conditions, illness and death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the epidemics that beset the colony, Egede remains steadfast in his determination willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the sake of his mission.

Translated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Kim Leine''s The Colony of Good Hope explores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.

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