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A tale of impossible love: The End of Drum Time, by Hanna Pylväinen, reviewed

A 19th-century missionary’s daughter falls for a Sami herdsman and flees with him to the tundra – only to find that, as an incomer, she will always be cold-shouldered

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

6 July 2024

9:00 AM

The End of Drum Time Hanna Pylväinen

Swift Press, pp.368, 14.99

In the arctic borderlands in the 1800s Finns and Swedes have come to live among the Sami. Missionaries and traders, they have brought alcohol and Protestant teaching.  ‘Mad Lasse’ is what the locals call the preacher, and mostly they keep their distance, staying with their reindeer out on the tundra, following their ancient customs.

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