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Lars Mytting, a novelist and journalist, was born in Favang, Norway, in 1968. His novel The Sixteen Trees of the Somme) was awarded the Norwegian National Booksellers' Award and has been bought for film. Norwegian Wood has become an international bestseller, and was the Bookseller Industry Awards Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2016. His novel The Bell in the Lake was a number one bestseller in Norway and nominated for the Norwegian National Bookseller's Award 2018.
Lars Mytting writes with an insight, empathy and integrity few others can match -- Jo Nesbo Lars Mytting has written The Hekne Tapestry at the height of his powers. He may have told the story he always dreamt of telling. And what a story that is! This novel is in a class of its own, for both Mytting's standards and those of all books published this year -- Preben Jordal * Aftenposten * Mytting writes about people of flesh and blood; he combines the language, the psychology and the social in one artistic unit [...] And above all; he mesmerizes the reader with his huge register of feelings. I'm already looking forward to book three. -- Stein Roll * Adresseavisen ****** * The Reindeer Hunters . . . hints at the magnetic pull of superstitions that thread beneath the conscious mind like veins of silver and slag . It also maps an age of rapid change. . . [A] craftily woven tale steeped in rich local dyes -- Boyd Tonkin * Financial Times *
