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The White Bear

The White Bear

Pontoppidan, Henrik
Larkin, Paul

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Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1681379295
ISBN13: 9781681379296
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Jun 10 2025
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.90 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Love, faith, and the political mingle in these two short novels by a Nobel Prize-winning Danish author. One about a young couple making a new life in Rome, the other about a priest who goes to live among native peoples in Greenland, both books explore the reaches of the human heart through their complex and unforgettable characters.

Henrik Pontoppidan, the Danish Nobel laureate, is admired for the concentrated force of his novellas as much as for long, populous, world-encompassing novels like A Fortunate Man, and here are two of those novellas, newly and brilliantly translated by Paul Larkin.

The White Bear follows the fate of the odd, gangly, red-bearded Thorkild Müller. Born in rural Jutland and destined for the ministry, Thorkild proves to be a poor student and is assigned to a remote Inuit tribe in Greenland. There, with his mythic-looking staff and dogskin skullcap, he becomes known as the White Bear--a beloved legend among the locals and a freewheeling embarrassment to his fellow priests. Grown old, he returns to Denmark, where again his flock adores him while his fellow men of cloth try to tame the whirling dervish in their midst. In the end Thorkild mysteriously disappears, presumably back to the snow wilderness of Greenland.

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