Linnea Hartsuyker

The Sea Queen

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second novel in this epic trilogy about Ragnvald, right-hand man to King Harald of Norway, and his tempestuous, driven sister, Svanhild.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 126mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 368g
• ISBN-13: 9780349142548
• ISBN-10: 0349142548
• Artikelnr.: 55694277

Autorenporträt

Linnea Hartsuyker is a graduate of NYU's Fiction MFA program and Cornell University's Engineering school, and has been researching the rise and reign of Harald Fairhair since she first discovered she was descended from him at the age of seventeen, when her family traced its ancestry back through 1200 years of Swedish and Norwegian church records. Since then she has read extensively of Icelandic sagas, kayaked and skied the fjordland settings for this novel, and even become proficient in lifting Husafjell stones, as the Vikings did to become stronger.

Rezensionen

"Hartsuyker's second volume in her trilogy (after The Half-Drowned King) continues the saga of Ragnvald Eysteinsson... but Svanhild proves that Norse women can be just as vicious and cunning as Norse men.... this is an ambitious tale of Norwegian medieval warfare told in richly colorful and accurate historical detail. Hartsuyker's novel reveals just how tenuous life is when disputes are settled with sword and battle-axe." Publishers Weekly