Spring Sacrifice
Lars Mytting
It is late March and a mild zero degrees as Lieutenant Aksel Størmer arrives in Messingdalen, the village which in heathen times sacrificed a human being to make spring appear.
Aksel is there to wind up the area’s old military camp, but his friendship with a neglected child gets him entangled with a repressed family drama.
Why does the room fall silent when he turns up in Chow Chow Inn? Why will no one talk about what has happened to Iver Tallaksen?
Gradually, the dark woodland village lets go of its mysteries. Soon people start pulling him into their lives, demanding a tougher, more heroic courage of Aksel than the war he was on his way to.
Praise for for the previous book Horse Power:
“It’s provocatively, passionately and terrifically well written … and it’s a novel which, with surprising strength, in the middle of a momentous maelstrom suddenly lets go of the earth and swings itself up into the air.”
Lars Borberg, Nordjyske Stiftstidende, Denmark
Foreign Sales - Horsepower (2006):
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