The Ice Palace

Name: The Ice Palace
Author: Tarjei Vesaas

by Tarjei Vesaas

Haunting novel about a girl drawn toward a mysterious palace of ice and transformation

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Tarjei Vesaas

Norwegian author who wrote in the Nynorsk form of Norwegian and produced some of the most powerful modernist fiction in Scandinavian literature. The Ice Palace and The Birds are lyrical masterpieces of existential intensity.

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