{"product_id":"9781529014341-colony-of-good-hope","title":"The Colony of Good Hope","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the tradition of Conrad's \u003ci\u003eHeart of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, an immensely powerful historical novel about the first encouters between Danish colonists and Greenlanders in the early 18th century, of brutal clashes between priests and pagans, love, death and evil and the forces that drive each individual towards darkness or light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn immensely powerful epic of colonialism, set in 18th-century Greenland, about the great forces of nature, the meeting of cultures and fathers and sons.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1728: The doomed Danish King Fredrik IV sends a governor to Greenland to establish a colony, in the hopes of exploiting the country’s allegedly vast natural resources. A few merchants, a barber-surgeon, two trainee priests, a blacksmith, some carpenters and soldiers and a dozen hastily married couples go with him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe missionary priest Hans Egede has already been in Greenland for several years when the new colonists arrive. He has established a mission there, but the converts are few. Among those most hostile Egede is the shaman Aappaluttoq, whose own son was taken by the priest and raised in the Christian faith as his own. Thus the great rift between two men, and two ways of life, is born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe newly arrived couples – composed of men and women plucked from prison – quickly sink into a life of almost complete dissolution, and soon unsanitary conditions, illness and death bring the colony to its knees. Through the starvation and the epidemics that beset the colony, Egede remains steadfast in his determination – willing to sacrifice even those he loves for the sake of his mission.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated from Danish by Martin Aitken, Kim Leine's \u003ci\u003eThe Colony of Good Hope \u003c\/i\u003eexplores what happens when two cultures confront one another. In a distant colony, under the harshest conditions, the overwhelming forces of nature meet the vices of man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41696391037025,"sku":"9781529014341","price":17.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27978996.jpg?v=1745822545","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781529014341-colony-of-good-hope","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}