The international award-winning, bestselling 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... THIS EDITION INCLUDES A READING GROUP GUIDE

Forty Days Without Shadow: An Arctic Thriller

Literature & Fiction

Truc, Olivier

Literary

Grand Central Publishing

The international award-winning, bestselling 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...THIS EDITION INCLUDES A READING GROUP GUIDE

Genre Fiction

Trapdoor

Le Détroit du Loup

POINTS

L'Imposteur

Biographies & Memoirs

True Crime

Le Cartographe des Indes boréales

Les Chiens de Pasvik

Au centre culturel de Kautokeino, un grand village sami au milieu de la toundra, on se prépare à montrer un tambour de chaman que vient de donner un scientifique français, compagnon de Paul Émile Victor. Dans la nuit, le tambour est volé. On soupçonne les fondamentalistes protestants laestadiens, qui, pour combattre le paganisme, ont dans le passé détruit de nombreux tambours. Ce peuvent aussi être les indépendantistes sami qui ont fait le coup pour faire parler d’eux. La mort d’un éleveur de rennes n’arrange rien à l’affaire. Deux enquêteurs de la police des rennes, Klemet Nango et son équipière, Nina Nansen, sont persuadés que les deux affaires sont liées. Mais à Katokeino on n’aime pas remuer les vieilles histoires… Que s’est-il passé en 1939 au cours de l’expédition de P.E. Victor, pourquoi, avant de disparaître, l’un des guides leur a-t-il donné ce tambour? Que dissimule la tendre Berit, malmenée depuis cinquante ans par le pasteur? Et que vient faire en ville ce Français qui aime trop les très jeunes filles et a l’air de bien connaître la géologie du coin? Au milieu d’un paysage incroyable, des personnages attachants et forts nous plongent aux limites de l’hypermodernité et de la tradition d’un peuple luttant pour sa survie culturelle. Un thriller magnifique et prenant, écrit par un auteur au style direct et vigoureux, qui connaît bien la région dont il parle.

Le Dernier Lapon

METAILIE

40 Tage Nacht

Droemer Taschenbuch

«No hay mejor escritora en castellano que Rosa Montero.» Juan Gómez Jurado Es de noche y en el puerto de Barcelona un guardia hace su ronda cuando su pastora alemana se para en seco a olfatear un contenedor. Al llegar, los mossos hallan en su interior a una mujer inconsciente y deshidratada. Tiene una brecha en la sien, quemaduras en la cara y el cuerpo, y no recuerda quién es ni cuál es su lengua materna, pero está viva. Mientras se recupera en el Hospital Clínic, un hombre intenta asesinarla. La inspectora Anna Ripoll, experta en trata de mujeres, parece haber dado con su identidad y su dirección: Alicia Garone; 19, rue du Chariot, Lyon. En la ciudad francesa el inspector Erik Zapori busca el modo de librarse de la investigación a la que asuntos internos lo está sometiendo por delitos de corrupción y proxenetismo. Nada mejor que viajar a España a ayudar en la resolución de este caso, aunque pueda ser el más complejo de su vida. Rosa Montero, una de las autoras más queridas y premiadas en lengua española, vuelve a la novela negra, esta vez acompañada por Olivier Truc, ganador del Premio Quais du Polar, el más prestigioso galardón francés del género policiaco. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "There is no better writer in the Spanish language than Rosa Montero." --Juan Gómez Jurado &nbsp; It is nighttime, and a guard at the Barcelona harbor is making his rounds when his German Shepherd halts to sniff a container. When the police arrive, they find an unconscious dehydrated woman inside. She has a cut on her temple, burns over her face and body, and cannot remember who she is or what her mother tongue is, but she is alive. While recuperating at the Hospital Clínic, a man tries to kill her. Inspector Anna Ripoll, expert in trafficking in women, seems to have found her name and address--Alicia Garone, 19 Rue du Chariot, Lyon. At the French city, inspector Erik Zapori is looking for a way out of the investigation Internal Affairs has put him under for crimes of corruption and procurement. Nothing better than traveling to Spain to help solve this case, although it well may be the most challenging of his life. &nbsp; Rosa Montero, one the most beloved and laureate authors in the Spanish language, returns to crime fiction, this time accompanied by Olivier Truc, winner of the Quais du Polar Prize, the most prestigious French award for crime novels.

La desconocida / Jane Doe (Spanish Edition)

MONTERO, ROSA

Alfaguara

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