Stolen

Synopsis

* now a netflix film * an npr best book of the year * a spellbinding swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her family’s reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law. On a winter day north of the arctic circle, nine-year-old elsa—daughter of sámi reindeer herders—sees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence.