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"Idealistic, misguided Morten Falck is a newly ordained priest sailing to Greenland in 1787 to convert the Inuit to the Danish church. A rugged outpost battered by unremittingly harsh winters, Sukkertoppen is simmering with the threat of dissent: natives from neighboring villages have unified to reject Danish rule and establish their own settlement atop Eternal Fjord. As Falck becomes involved with those in his care--his ambitious catechist, a lonely trader's wife, and a fatalistic widow he comes to love--his faith and reputation are compromised"--
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Fiction, Missions, Clergy, History, Fiction, historical, general, Clergy, fiction, Greenland, fictionPlaces
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The prophets of Eternal Fjord
2015, Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
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0871406713 9780871406712
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Translation of: Profeterne i Evighedsfjorden.
"A novel"--Jacket.
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