Northernmost
Northernmost by Peter Geye is a novel published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 2020, featuring 331 pages in English. The story unfolds in two timelines, beginning in 1897 with Odd Einar Eide, who returns home from a harrowing Arctic experience only to find his own funeral in progress. His wife, Inger, grapples with the emotional aftermath of believing she has lost both him and their daughter, Thea, who has gone missing after traveling to America.
The narrative then shifts to more than a century later, where Greta Nansen confronts the dissolution of her own marriage. Seeking closure, she plans to follow her husband to Oslo but instead finds herself drawn to Hammerfest, the ancestral home of her great-great-grandmother Thea. Northernmost intertwines themes of family life, love, and survival, exploring the depths of human resilience amid loss and longing. This first edition invites readers to reflect on the complexities of relationships and the enduring spirit of adventure.
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ONE OF HOUSTON CHRONICLE‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR
From the acclaimed author of Wintering a thrilling ode to the spirit of adventure and the vagaries of loss and love.
A beautiful, big-hearted, triumphant novel.”–Nathan Hill, author of The Nix
In 1897, Odd Einar Eide returns home from a near-death experience in the Arctic only to discover his own funeral underway. His wife, Inger, stunned to see him alive, is slow to warm back up to him, having spent many sleepless nights convinced she had lost both him and their daughter, Thea, who traveled to America two years earlier but has yet to send even a single letter back to them in Hammerfest, their small Norwegian town at the top of the earth.
More than a century later, Greta Nansen has finally begun to admit to herself that her marriage is over. Desperately unhappy and unfulfilled, she makes the decision to follow her husband from their home in Minnesota to Oslo, where he has traveled for work, to end it once and for all. But on impulse, she diverts her travels to Hammerfest: the town of her ancestors, the town where her great-great-grandmother Thea was born–and for some reason never returned to. Braiding together two remarkable stories of love and survival, Northernmost wades into the darkest recesses of the human heart and celebrates the remarkable ability of humans to endure nearly unimaginable trials.
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