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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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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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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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Title	:	The Forest of Hours
Author	:	Kerstin Ekman
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special 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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weird but compelling. And haunting.

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

It was a scrawny little troll, unknowing and guileless, and not much given to thinking at all. There was little more than fluttering, like the wings of jays, going on under that tussock of hair.Skord is a creature of the forest not a troll as I thought of trolls, and not very fantastic except that he has the gift, shaman-wise, of sending his consciousness into other beings (which he does by habit just for the trip), and he lives for the five hundred years of the novel. There are giants in the

One of the most fantastical and fascinating books I've ever read.

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Interesting and erratic and enough to push on despite reading other titles throughout. Haven't read another like it that's for sure.