The End of Drum-Time: A Novel [Paperback]

FINALIST FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD
Named a Best Book of 2023 by NPR,Time, theChristian Science Monitor,Vox, andKirkus Reviews

The best type of historical fictionelectrifying, edifying, and set in an utterly enthralling time and place.The Minneapolis Star Tribune

An epic love story in the vein ofCold MountainandThe Great Circle, about a young reindeer herder and a ministers daughter in the nineteenth century Arctic Circle.

In 1851, at a remote village in the Scandinavian tundra, a Lutheran minister known as Mad Lasse tries in vain to convert the native S?mi reindeer herders to his faith. But when one of the most respected herders has a dramatic awakening and dedicates his life to the church, his impetuous son, Ivv?r, is left to guard their diminishing herd alone. By chance, he meets Mad Lasses daughter Willa, and their blossoming infatuation grows into something that ultimately crosses bordersof cultures, of beliefs, and of political dividesas Willa follows the herders on their arduous annual migration north to the sea.

Gorgeously written and sweeping in scope, Hanna Pylv?inen'sThe End of Drum-Timeimmerses readers in a world lit by the northern lights, steeped in age-old rituals, and guided by passions that transcend place and time.

Hanna Pylv?inen is the author of the novelWe Sinners, which received a Whiting Award and a Balcones Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared inHarpers Magazine, theNew York Times, theNew York Times Magazine,Chicago Tribune, and theWall Street Journal; she is the recipient of fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Princeton Universitys Lewis Center for the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, the American-Scandinavian Foundation, and the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New YorlÃT