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Newth, Mette

The Dark Light

246 pp. | Farrar | January, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-374-31701-1
(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.

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