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The bell in the lake / Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin.

The bell in the lake / Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin.

As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church, with its pagan deity effigies and supernatural bells. When the pastor makes a deal that brings an outsider, a sophisticated German architect, into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between past and future, as dark forces come into play.

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Adult Fiction   Batemans Bay . . Available .  
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Author Mytting, Lars, 1968-
Title Søsterklokkene
The bell in the lake / Lars Mytting ; translated from the Norwegian by Deborah Dawkin.
Publication Details London : Maclehose Press/Quercus, 2020.
Description 391 pages ; 24 cm.
Series Sister Bells trilogy 1
Notes First published as Søsterklokkene by Gyldendal Norsk, Oslo, in 2018.
Translated from the Norwegian
As long as people could remember, the stave church's bells had rung over the isolated village of Butangen, Norway. Cast in memory of conjoined twins, the bells are said to ring on their own in times of danger. In 1879, young pastor Kai Schweigaard moves to the village, where young Astrid Hekne yearns for a modern life. She sees a way out on the arm of the new pastor, who needs a tie to the community to cull favor for his plan for the old stave church, with its pagan deity effigies and supernatural bells. When the pastor makes a deal that brings an outsider, a sophisticated German architect, into their world, the village and Astrid are caught between past and future, as dark forces come into play.
Subject Stave churches -- Norway -- Fiction
Priests -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
Paganism -- Norway -- 19th century -- Fiction
Norway -- History -- 1814-1905 -- Fiction
Added Author Dawkin, Deborah
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