(4) YA Translated by Faith Ingwersen. In fifteenth-century Greenland, Navarana comes across a young Christian monk, sole survivor of intruders who came as missionaries, and nurses him back to life. The thrust of the slow-paced novel is philosophical as Brendan is torn between what he has been taught and what he now observes in Navarana's belief system.

Reviewer: Susan P. Bloom | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2001

(1) YA Translated by Faith Ingwersen. Aptly titled, this intense, often searingly painful novel of ultimate "homecoming" for thirteen-year-old Tora--dying of leprosy in a hospital in Norway in the early 1800s--alternates between images of stark bleakness and those of brilliant luminescence. The challenging novel raises questions about God and time, life and death, revenge and forgiveness. Newth realizes here the near impossible: the reader exits this purgatory of disease and filth feeling cleansed and uplifted.

Reviewer: The Horn Book, Inc.