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the voyage of the short serpent
a prize winning novel of untamed murder sex and christianity in thefrozen landscapes and treacherous waters of iceland br translated from the french by hester velmans br years ago a group left europe to start a colony in iceland . but as the years wore on communication between the colony and the people back home stopped . had the people of new thule have gone native or worse yet gone pagan a cardinal ordered an evangelical mission in order to see what has become of the people and to revive their faith . br but the short serpent the missions ship carried its crew toward a horror that no one could conceive . told in an elegant compulsive and increasingly unhinged style bernard du boucherons the voyage of the short serpent is a masterpiece about mutable human morality in inhuman conditions a story about truth obsession and the myth of utopia . br
paperback overlook press 2008 isbn13 9781590201510 isbn10 1590201515
abridged n isbn 13 9781590201510 number in series 1 number of pages 206 publisher penguin group usa release date 1227657600000