The Dark Light - Softcover

Newth, Mette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374416885 ISBN 13: 9780374416881

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR), 2004

Synopsis

When it was discovered that thirteen-year-old Tora has leprosy, she is sent from her family's remote mountain farm to the leprosy hospital in the bustling port of Bergen. In early-nineteenth-century Norway, lepers are quarantined in this hospital and no longer considered among the living. But even as her body gradually fails her, Tora's new life blossoms. She finds strength through helping her fellow patients, both young and old, and she decides to see for herself what the Bible says about leprosy. To do so, she must make friends with the young and angry Mistress Dybendal, the only person at the hospital who can teach her to read.

As she did in The Abduction (an ALA Best Book for Young Adults and a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year), Mette Newth brings another era vividly to life and demonstrates the timeless nature of the search for identity and tolerance.

About this title

About the Author:

Mette Newth is an illustrator and translator, as well as the author of The Abduction and The Transformation. Formerly the director of the Norwegian Forum for Freedom of Expression, she is now head of the National College of Art in Oslo.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Norwegian

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0374416885
• ISBN 13: 9780374416881
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256