Lars Mytting
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Lars Mytting was born in 1968 in Favang, Norway. His book, Norwegian Woods: Chopping, Stacking and Drying Wood the Scandinavian Way, won Nonfiction Book of the Year from the 2016 British Book Industry Awards. His novel, At Swim with Those Who Drown, was awarded the Norwegian National Booksellers' visa mer Award and is now being made into a film. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
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Ved : allt om huggning, stapling och torkning - och vedeldningens själ (2011) 462 exemplar, 10 recensioner
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This book is a captivating historical mystery set in 1991 but shifting back to events in the 1970s and WWII. Written by Norwegian author Lars Mytting, it begins in Gudbrandsdalen, Norway and moves to Haaf Gruney on the Shetland Isles and to Somme and Authuille in France.
Edvard Hirifjell grows up on a potato farm with his grandparents Sverre and Alma. After his grandfather dies a coffin arrives for him from the Shetland Islands from his supposedly long deceased brother Einar. Edvard is struck with the need to find out more about the mysterious Einar and also about the deaths of his parents back in the 1970s when they wandered into a forest in Authuille and were killed by unexploded shells dating back to the Black Watch Soldiers and the Battle of the Somme in 1916, wherein over a million lives were lost. There are also unanswered questions about an interval of four days when Edvard himself, as a small child, was missing, presumed kidnapped. All the questions take Edvard on a trip back to Haaf Gruney island, despite the protests of his recently returned ex-girlfriend Hanne.
On the Shetlands he soon meets the elusive Gwen Winterfinch, heiress to the Winterfinch timber fortune. Gwen is also searching for the invaluable timber harvested from the walnut trees in the forest at Authuille; trees whose timber is shaped and warped by the gasses from the war, in a forest owned by the Daveaux family of Edvard’s mother and grandmother, where Gwen’s grandfather’s men were wounded and died. The two of them work together, but unable to be transparent and honest with each other, race to find answers to what happened between her grandfather Captain Duncan Winterfell of the Black Watch, timber merchant, and his uncle Einar, master timber craftsman, and what happened to the sixteen trees.
This was an intriguing and complex story, occasionally I missed a few points, but I was caught up in the mystery, in the beauty of the timber, and the islands. This is an atmospheric tale that I thoroughly enjoyed. My only criticism was that neither romance felt convincing to me, and I did not find myself rooting for either woman. I would definitely recommend this book and would look out for another by Lars Mytting.… (mer)