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Those Who Sow in Snow / Folk som sår i snö (Tina Harnesk, book review)

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 Hello dear readers and bloggers! I'm back with another book review by Tina Harnesk, an author I was not familiar with but have simply fallen in love with. Gosh, I love to discover new authors! In this post, I'll review Those Who Sow in Snow , a Swedish novel by Tina Harnesk, a writer of Sami descent.  The novel is written in Swedish and set in Sweden, but it is deeply rooted in Sami culture.  The principal characters in this novel are indigenous, and their culture and identity is actually a vital part of the novel.  I don't know how much you know about Sami (also spelled Saami), but they are basically the only recognized ingenuous European people.  All of us Europeans came from somewhere to Europe, but Sami were always here.  Sami inhabited the  the historical region of  Sápmi, that encompasses  present day  Norway ,  Sweden ,  Finland  and  Kola Peninsula  in  Russia . Historical Sápmi lands were formerly ...