The spellbinding story of a young womanтАЩs dangerous passion as it plays out over the course of an eerie summer
In their remote Viking settlement, Folkv├н and her brother, ├Бslakr, have always been closeтАФunnaturally close. TheyтАЩve grown more intimate still as Folkv├н learns her shaman motherтАЩs craft, as men regard her with newly devouring eyes. Then illness carries off their parents, and the nest of home is shattered. ├Бslakr sets off on his first expedition, abandoning Folkv├н to the dark of an endless winter. When he returns, heтАЩs done the unthinkable: HeтАЩs found someone else to love.
Sick with grief, Folkv├н rages to the gods where they sit at the foot of an ancient tree, contemplating the twisted passions of humans that play out in the face of an ever-approaching end of days. Will none of them save her now? Very well, Folkv├н will save herself. The wedding date is set. But first comes a fateful summer. . .┬а
Deeply unsettling and brilliantly imagined, First Comes Summer captures the terror of losing the world youтАЩve always knownтАФand the uncanny extremes to which you might go to hold on to it.
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