Stolen - Ann-Heln Laestadius

Ann-Heln Laestadius, Rachel Willson-Broyles

Category: Mystery

Tags: Mystery, Crime

SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM, Louise Erdrich meets Jo Nesb in this spellbinding Swedish novel that follows a young indigenous woman as she struggles to defend her familys reindeer herd and culture amidst xenophobia, climate change, and a devious hunter whose targeted kills are considered mere theft in the eyes of the law., On a winter day north of the Arctic Circle, nine-year-old Elsadaughter of Smi reindeer herderssees a man brutally kill her beloved reindeer calf and threaten her into silence. When her father takes her to report the crime, local police tell them that there is nothing they can do about these stolen animals. Killings like these are classified as theft in the reports that continue to pile up, uninvestigated. But reindeer are not just the Smis livelihood, they also hold spiritual significance; attacking a reindeer is an attack on the culture itself., Ten years later, hatred and threats against the Smi keep escalating, and more reindeer are tortured and killed in Elsas commu