The Sealwoman's Gift: the Zoe Ball book club novel of 17th century Iceland Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

The Sealwoman's Gift: the Zoe Ball book club novel of 17th century Iceland Book

Waterstones Scottish Book of the Month for July 2018 Chosen for the Zoe Ball Book Club  'Icelandic history has been brought to extraordinary life. I was swept up in the story and the vivid plight of people taken away from everything they knew and understood. An accomplished and intelligent novel.' - Yrsa Sigurdardottir In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor, his wife and their three children. Although the raid itself is well documented, little is known about what happened to the women and children afterwards. It was a time when women everywhere were largely silent. In this brilliant reimagining, Sally Magnusson gives a voice to Asta, the pastor's wife. Enslaved in an alien Arab culture Asta meets the loss of both her freedom and her children with the one thing she has brought from home: the stories in her head. Steeped in the sagas and folk tales of her northern homeland, she finds herself experiencing not just the separations and agonies of captivity, but the reassessments that come in any age when intelligent eyes are opened to other lives, other cultures and other kinds of loving. The Sealwoman's Gift is about the eternal power of storytelling to help us survive. The novel is full of stories - Icelandic ones told to fend off a slave-owner's advances, Arabian ones to help an old man die. And there are others, too: the stories we tell ourselves to protect our minds from what cannot otherwise be borne, the stories we need to make us happy.Read More

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    The Sealwoman's Gift : Paperback : John Murray Press : 9781473638983 : 1473638984 : 31 May 2022 : The debut novel of abduction and slavery set in 17th century Iceland and North Africa by Sunday Times bestselling author and broadcaster Sally Magnusson. Selected for the Zoe Ball ITV Book Club and BBC Radio 2 Book Club.

  • 1473638984
  • 9781473638983
  • Magnusson, Sally
  • 14 June 2018
  • Two Roads
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • Book
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