Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A brooding, often beautiful tale of life in the Far North and the immigrant experience."
* Kirkus Reviews *
"The saga of countless families who survived starvation, ostracism and war to reach America."
* The Seattle Times *
"Nikolai's Fortune is a remarkable intergenerational testament to 'sisu,' the Finnish quality of being able to bear the unbearable and persevere. It is a hard book to put down."
* The Olympian *
"Solveig Torvik has produced a dramatic masterpiece of historical fiction that it hard to put down. Here, at last, is a Finnish Saami relocation and immigration story that exposes the roots of intergenerational trauma. It can easily take its place beside Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club and Alice Walker's The Temple of My Familiar as classics of the genre."
* Baiki: The International Sami Journal *
Table of ContentsPrologue
Book I. The Road of the Four Winds (Kaisa)
1. Meeting Nikolai
2. Marie's Past
3. Dreams of America
4. America Widows
5. Sisu
6. The Road to Lapland
7. The Alps of the North
8. Learning Norwegian
9. Courting
10. Signaldal
11. Anton
12. Homeless
13. The Birtavarre Mines
Book II. Under Otertind (Berit)
14. Loss
15. Aalesund
16. The Chosen People
17. Hanna
Book III. Soup from a Nail (Hanna)
18. Hamstring
19. Making Peace with Peace
20. America
21. Homecoming
Notes on Methodology
Acknowledgments
