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Forty Days Without Shadow
- An Arctic Thriller
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 15 h et 20 min
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Prix Biblioblog winner, 2013
Prix Inter polar du festival polar de Reims winner, 2013
Short-listed, CWA International Dagger, 2013
Prix Robinsonnais winner, 2013
Prix des lecteurs Plume Libre Bronze Thriller winner, 2013
Prix Sang d'Encre de la Ville de Vienne winner, 2013
The international award-winning, best-selling phenomenon, now available in English for the first time.
Tomorrow, the sun will rise for the first time in 40 days. Thirty minutes of daylight will herald the end of the polar night in Kautokeino, a small village in northern Norway, home to the indigenous Sami people.
But in the last hours of darkness, a precious artifact is stolen: an ancient Sami drum. The most important piece in the museum's collection, it was due to go on tour with a UN exhibition in a few short weeks.
Hours later, a man is murdered. Mattis, one of the last Sami reindeer herders, is found dead in his gumpy.
Are the two crimes connected? In a town fraught with tension - between the indigenous Samis fighting to keep their culture alive, the ultra-Lutheran Scandinavian colonists concerned with propagating their own religion, and the greedy geologists eager to mine the region's ore deposits - it falls to two local police officers to solve the crimes. Klemet Nango, an experienced Sami officer, and Nina Nansen, his much younger partner from the south of Norway, must find the perpetrators before it's too late...
Ce que les critiques en disent
"Against the backdrop of the polar night, ancient religious traditions, and the fierce rivalries of reindeer-herders, Olivier Truc's remarkable, triumphant thriller is far more than a colourful stroll through an exotic culture."—Télérama magazine, "Best Crime Novels of 2012
"It's always a pleasure to encounter a really unusual setting for crime fiction, but novelty alone is no good—it needs a decent story to go with it. Luckily, Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc scores both ways...This dense but tense thriller is full of local colour."—Morning Star (UK)
"Olivier Truc's debut novel is a fascinating thriller by a writer who is already a master of the genre."—Librairie Garin