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Barcode37821002535462
LocationMarshall District
TitlePunished : a novel / Ann-Helén Laestadius ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
AuthorLaestadius, Ann-Helén, author.
Call NoFIC LAE
CollectionAdult New Arrivals

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International Standard Book Number 9781668045510 (paperback)
International Standard Book Number 1668045516 (paperback)
Personal Name Laestadius, Ann-Helén, author.
Title Statement Punished : a novel / Ann-Helén Laestadius ; translated from the Swedish by Rachel Willson-Broyles.
Imprint New York : Scribner, 2025.
Physical Description pages cm.
General Note Translation of: Straff.
Summary, Etc. "In the 1950s near the Arctic Circle, seven-year-olds Jon-Ante, Else-Maj, Nilsa, Marge, and Anne-Risten are taken from their families. As children of Sámi reindeer herders, the Swedish state has mandated they attend a "nomad school" where they are forbidden to speak their native language. As the children visit home only sporadically, their parents know little about the abuse they face, much of it at the hands of the housemother, Rita. Those who dare to speak up are silenced. Thirty years later, the fivechildren have chosen different paths to cope with the past. Else-Maj holds strong in her Sámi identity but has turned to religion for comfort, while Anne-Risten now goes by Anne to hide her heritage from friends. Nilsa herds reindeer like his father butharbors a lot of anger, and Jon-Ante struggles with traumatic memories from the school. Then there's Marge, who is about to adopt a daughter from Colombia, but can't help questioning if it's right to take a child from her homeland. Then suddenly, housemother Rita reappears. Now an old, frail woman claiming to have God on her side, she acts like nothing ever happened. But the five former students have neither forgotten nor forgiven her. As the narrative shifts between each of their perspectives, the novelasks: If you had the chance to punish the person who hurt you as a child, would you? Based on the author's family story, Punished is a searing novel about loss, memory, cultural erasure, and community that vibrates with righteous rage over one nation's greatest betrayals of its native people"-- Provided by publisher.
Index Term-Genre/Form Novels.
Added Entry, Personal Name Willson-Broyles, Rachel, translator.
Added Entry, Personal Name Laestadius, Ann-Helén, Straff. English.

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