The memoirs of Stockholm Sven / by Nathaniel Ian Miller.
"In 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time in a mining camp ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, after which Sven flees even farther, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements. The teachings of a Finnish fur trapper, along with encouraging letters from his family and a Scottish geologist who befriended him in the mining camp, get him through his first winter. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, sparking a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs that determine the course of the rest of his life. Written with wry humor and in prose as breathtaking as the stark landscape it evokes, The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven is a testament to the strength of our human bonds, reminding us that eve in the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, we are not beyond the reach of love." -- Jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780316592550
- ISBN: 0316592552
- Physical Description: 325 pages : maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2021
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Subject: | Disfigured persons > Fiction. Trapping > Fiction. Social isolation > Fiction. Families > Fiction. Spitsbergen Island (Norway) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Historical fiction. Fiction. Novels. |
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Abington Community Library | FICTION MILLER (Text) | 50687011754051 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Albright Memorial Library | FICTION MILLER (Text) | 50686016113495 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Altoona Area Public Library | F MIL (Text) | 33240004940352 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Dover Area Community Library | Adults MIL Fiction (Text) | 34217000880823 | Adult Area | Available | - |
Huntingdon County Library | F MIL (Text) | 30298100592595 | Fiction | Available | - |
Indian Valley Public Library | Fiction Miller (Text) | 39427103622114 | Fiction Room: Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Kutztown Community Library | MIL (Text) | 33249024641874 | Fiction | Available | - |
Lower Macungie Library | FIC MIL (Text) | 33400001534521 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
Martin Library | Adults MIL Fiction (Text) | 33454005818554 | Reading Room Balcony | Available | - |
North Pocono Public Library | FICTION MILLER (Text) | 50691010934763 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |