The Forest Of Hours - Softcover

Ekman, Kerstin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099751712 ISBN 13: 9780099751717

Publisher: Vintage, 1999

Synopsis

Ekman's central character is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. The novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he begins to gradually to understand human civilisation and to learn their language. Although he can pose as one of them, however, he is also able to assume the form of animals and cause things to happen simply by willing them. Skord survives for five hundred years and lives many different lives but, despite his learning, he finds it difficult to resist the call of the forest and returns there periodically to rejoin the band of forest outlaws who live outside human society. He will live to see the nineteenth century and the age of steam, but, by then, he will have discovered that man's supposed cultivation is in fact destructive and the most important thing in life is love - his love of a forest woman.

About this title

Review:

"Unforgettable...The Forest of Hours is an ambitious, learned and intensely imagined novel."

About the Author:

Kerstin Ekman was born in 1933 and is one of Sweden's most prominent novelists. The author of the international bestseller Blackwater, which has been sold in 23 countries, she is renowned both for her detective novels and her more literary works. She has written seventeen novels which have been translated into many languages and won numerous prizes and awards. She used to be one of the eighteen members of the Swedish Academy of Arts and Letters, but resigned when the Academy failed to make an official statement of support for Salman Rushdie. Kerstin Ekman lives in Valsjobyn, a small village in the north of Sweden.

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0099751712
• ISBN 13: 9780099751717
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 496