Greenland (Denmark) / All works
Novel
Taseralik
Not translated into English
Otto Rosing · 1955
Synopsis
At the time when Christianity is beginning to spread across Greenland, a woman struggles to receive baptism. The story, which its subtitle places in the years 1845 to 1850, is set during the annual summer gathering at the mouth of the Nordre Strømfjord. The plot is not known in more detail.
Context
Published in Nuuk in 1955, with the support of the provincial council, in a volume of one hundred and seventy-nine pages, the novel rests, according to Den Store Danske, on historical sources of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A second novel, Gulunnguaq, devoted to a witch hunt in Disko Bay in the early days of the mission, takes up the same subject and appeared after the author's death. Store norske leksikon ranks Rosing among the authors of Greenlandic historical novels.
Who it is for
A historical novel from the early Greenlandic literature; no French or English translation has been found.
Prizes and reception
Store norske leksikon stresses the scale of the historical research on which his books are based.
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