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The Night of the Scourge

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by Lars Mytting
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A riveting and epic family drama set in WWII–era Norway, award-winning author Lars Mytting's The Night of the Scourge is also the final novel in the internationally bestselling Sister Bells trilogy
Butangen, Norway, the years before WWII: Astrid Hekne has inherited the fighting spirit and hypersensitivity of her grandmother, who was a protector of the mythic Sister Bells that had once hung in the village's centuries-old stave church.
The once-traitorous priest Kai Schweigaard, now in his eighties, is wondering how his death, prophesied in a centuries-old tapestry, will come true. Schweigaard tries to understand the myths about the Night of the Scourge, which, according to old village beliefs, is the night when the known world will fall and the Earth will be scraped down to bare rock.
Then Norway is occupied by the Nazis. Astrid joins the Resistance, and Kai is thrown out of his own church. Betrayal within Astrid's own family unites the Sister Bells in Dresden. Special effort and sacrifice, not only from the Hekne family, will be needed to combat the postwar rumors and mistrust.
This family drama, set in the tumultuous times of WWII, beautifully completes the Sister Bells trilogy. But while it connects to the previous books in surprising and thrilling ways, it can also be read as a standalone, a grand and epic novel that intertwines Norwegian folklore and myths with a rich story of hardship and passion.
The Sister Bells Trilogy:
The Bell in the Lake (#1)
The Reindeer Hunters (#2)
The Night of the Scourge (#3)

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    The Sister Bells Trilogy

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  • Release date

    February 4, 2025

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      • ISBN: 9781647006341

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      • ISBN: 9781647006341
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    • English

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    • Booklist

      Starred review from February 1, 2025
      Mytting closes out his Sister Bells trilogy (The Bell in the Lake, 2020; The Reindeer Hunters, 2022), a saga encompassing hundreds of years in the isolated Norwegian village of Butangen. In the 1600s, conjoined twin sisters create the Hekne Weave, a beautiful, disturbing tapestry that predicts (creates?) the future. To memorialize them, their father commissions the Sister Bells for the local stave church, though others view the Hekne sisters as monstrum, part of an omen predicting the Night of the Scourge, or the Apocalypse. In the 1880s, young pastor Kai Schweigaard oversees the dismantling of the medieval church for shipment to Germany, its sale funding a new church building. In 1936, the now-octogenarian Schweigaard has regrets aplenty and Nazi agents seek out the sister bell, separated from the one Germany acquired decades ago. They occupy Butangen, enlisting some inhabitants as collaborators and terrorizing others, including Astrid Hekne, descendant of Schweigaard's great love. The expansive plot references and builds on the previous two books, which are prerequisite reads for fully enjoying this novel. Characters are imbued with depth and authenticity, and Mytting recreates settings with expert clarity through his evocative prose. The result is a master class in what accomplished historical fiction can offer: an utterly immersive experience.

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