(1) 4-6 Translated by Faith Ingwersen. This folktale-like Danish novel follows an orphaned peasant girl as she gathers together a new family made up of other lost souls like her. The group, including a motherless little boy and his grieving father, an abused mother and daughter, and a reclusive shepherd, grow to rely on one another for physical and emotional sustenance. The prose is as luminous and uncluttered as the stark coastal setting.

Reviewer: Christine M. Heppermann | Horn Book Magazine Issue: May, 2004

(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.