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The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman

Paperback | Pages: 496 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 337 Users | 36 Reviews

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Title	:	The Forest of Hours
Author	:	Kerstin Ekman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 496 pages
Published	:	November 4th 1999 by Vintage (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. Sweden. European Literature. Swedish Literature

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Ekman's central character is Skord, a magical being who is neither man nor animal. The novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he begins to gradually to understand human civilisation and to learn their language. Although he can pose as one of them, however, he is also able to assume the form of animals and cause things to happen simply by willing them. Skord survives for five hundred years and lives many different lives but, despite his learning, he finds it difficult to resist the call of the forest and returns there periodically to rejoin the band of forest outlaws who live outside human society. He will live to see the nineteenth century and the age of steam, but, by then, he will have discovered that man's supposed cultivation is in fact destructive and the most important thing in life is love - his love of a forest woman.

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Original Title:	Rövarna i Skuleskogen
ISBN:	0099751712 (ISBN13: 9780099751717)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Bernard Shaw Prize for Anna Paterson (2000)

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Ratings: 3.88 From 337 Users | 36 Reviews

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It took a long time to get through, didn't think giants lived so long. Skord was a neat character.

weird but compelling. And haunting.

This book leaves white hot trails over my soul. I love it. Having read it in both Swedish and English, I must say that the English translation is a masterpiece!

This began promisingly: in the Middle Ages a troll, Skord, meets children who teach him about houses and fire. They teach him to talk; he can already talk with the animals and birds. This and several chapters thereafter were like folktales: Skord, in the forest of Skule, starts interaction with humans and wants to be more like them. Then, as centuries pass, Skord moves from the forest, has more dealings with humans: experiences war and imprisonment, an outlaw band, is an apprentice doctor and

I bit of a slog but with some interesting bits. Just enough to keep me reading but nothing more.

Reads like a cross between the Tolkien trilogy, an Ingmar Bergman film, a James Michener novel and David Abrams's "Spell of the Sensuous." Sank into its deepening melancholy and mysterious and ambiguous sense of time, space and nature of being over the 500-year life of its protagonist. Breath is suspended while life throbs on--trudging, gliding, crawling, cartwheeling moment to moment. The deeply personal in a third person narrative. Enter only if you have a great deal time on your hands and the

Maybe Moomintroll just sailed across the Baltic to Skuleskogen, went a bit wild in his teenage years and had to spend some time learning how to fit into society again. Kerstin Ekman tells the story of just such a Troll whose fateful decision to perform an untrollike act binds him to an increasingly human existence for the remaining centuries of his life.The story of Skords journey to humanity from criminal to alchemist to soldier to doctor to man and back again is picked out in in precise detail