Ædnan : Pushkin Press : 9781805331315 : 1805331310 : 25 Jan 2024 : A moving, revelatory novel-in-verse about the struggle and persistence of two Indigenous Sámi families over a century 'Crystalline... reads like poetry and myth at once... The music of this book is old, and it is new, and it is old' Tommy Orange, author of There, There 'Mesmerising. A beautiful, poetic weaving of language, character and place... Evocative and heart-breaking' Audrey Magee, author of The Colony In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sámi families, telling of their struggle and persistence over a century of colonial displacement, loss and resistance. It begins with Ristin and Ber-Joná, who are trying to care for their troubled young sons while migrating their reindeer herd in northernmost Scandinavia during the 1910s. The coming of the Swedes brings new borders that lay wast