{"product_id":"the-memoirs-of-stockholm-sven-9780316592581","title":"The Memoirs of Stockholm Sven","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \"briskly entertaining\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), \"transporting and wholly original\" (\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about one man who banishes himself to a solitary life in the Arctic Circle, and is saved by good friends, a loyal dog, and a surprise visit that changes everything. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e#1 INDIE NEXT PICK \u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Vermont Book Award \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1916, Sven Ormson leaves a restless life in Stockholm to seek adventure in Svalbard, an Arctic archipelago where darkness reigns four months of the year and he might witness the splendor of the Northern Lights one night and be attacked by a polar bear the next. But his time as a miner ends when an avalanche nearly kills him, leaving him disfigured, and Sven flees even further, to an uninhabited fjord. There, with the company of a loyal dog, he builds a hut and lives alone, testing himself against the elements. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe teachings of a Finnish fur trapper, along with encouraging letters from his family and a Scottish geologist who befriended him in the mining camp, get him through his first winter. Years into his routine isolation, the arrival of an unlikely visitor salves his loneliness, sparking a chain of surprising events that will bring Sven into a family of fellow castoffs and determine the course of the rest of his life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten with wry humor and in prose as breathtaking as the stark landscape it evokes, \u003ci\u003eThe Memoirs of Stockholm Sven\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the strength of our human bonds, reminding us that even in the most inhospitable conditions on the planet, we are not beyond the reach of love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Back Bay Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316592581\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Nathaniel Ian Miller","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42325283569845,"sku":"9780316592581","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0af9b2df-7fad-4cff-9db8-04df49dd3f4f.jpg?v=1660018761","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-memoirs-of-stockholm-sven-9780316592581","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}