Northernmost

From the acclaimed author of Wintering: a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love

In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. His wife, Inger, stunned to see him alive, is slow to warm back up to him, having spent many sleepless nights convinced she had lost both him and their daughter, Thea, who traveled to America two years earlier but has yet to send even a single letter back to them in Hammerfest, their small Norwegian town at the top of the earth.
More than a century later, Greta Nansen has finally begun to admit to herself that her marriage is over. Desperately unhappy and unfulfilled, she makes the decision to follow her husband from their home in Minnesota to Oslo, where he has traveled for work, to end it once and for all. But on impulse, for reasons unknown even to her, she diverts her travels to Hammerfest: the town of her ancestors, the town where her great-great-grandmother Thea was born--and for some reason never returned to.
Braiding together two remarkable stories of love and survival, Northernmost wades into the darkest recesses of the human heart and celebrates the remarkable ability of humans to endure nearly unimaginable trials.

De la apreciatul autor al Iernarii: o oda palpitanta pentru spiritul aventurii si capriciile pierderii si iubirii In 1897, Odd Einar Eide se intoarce acasa dintr-o experienta de aproape moarte in Arctica doar pentru a-si descoperi propria inmormantare in curs. Sotia sa, Inger, uluita cand il vede in viata, se incetineste la el, dupa ce a petrecut multe nopti de somn convinsa ca i-a pierdut atat pe el, cat si pe fiica lor, Thea, care a calatorit in America cu doi ani mai devreme, dar nu a trimis o singura scrisoare inapoi catre ei in Hammerfest, micul lor oras norvegian din varful pamantului. Mai mult de un secol mai tarziu, Greta Nansen a inceput in cele din urma sa-si recunoasca casatoria sa incheiata.