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| Category:
Fiction/General
| Publication:
2009 Spring
| Agent:
Susanne Widén
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| Pauline Wolff (Author) |
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| Swedish title: Swede |
An extraordinary novel from the Wild West -
a tale of bravery, revenge and romance like you have never heard it told before!
In the 19th century Mid-West, where the prairie ends and the Rocky Mountains start, our hero, the fearless and honest prize-hunter Swede, once again sets out to track down wanted villains, and make this a safer place for the settlers.
Young boys are proud to ride out with him, hungry for the glory and adventure to rub off on them too.
Waiting for him back home is the girl he courts, the sweetly perfect miss Ida Arthur, daughter of a ranch-owner.
Also waiting are Swede’s young son in the care of his always reliable sister Katie, and Katie herself, who is married to the gentle small-town-shopkeeper.
So, with all the usual stereotypes of a Western, the story can begin.
But in Pauline Wolff's Wild West women and children come to the forefront, and she offers the reader a disquietening contribution to the classical set-up: the three religious but totally demoralized and revengeful sisters Steen, who boldly try to administer their own justice in a world where the weakest usually perish.
And slowly the perspectives start shifting as these children of Swedish immigrants to the plains of Montana find themselves involved in a drama with a touch of a Greek tragedy. Obsession and retaliation seem bound to lead up to the inevitable ending as characters blur and change, and personal motives become more ambiguous and intriguing.
Although toying almost playfully with her dark story, Pauline Wolff leaves the reader with existential and Dostoevskyan questions as to the dividing lines between good and evil, crime and punishment and guilt and innocence.
 Sample translation
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