The international sensation: the story of a young Sami girl's coming-of-age, and a powerful fable about family, identity and justice • Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sami – Scandinavia's indigenous people – and make their living herding reindeer • One morning when Elsa goes skiing alone, she witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nastegallu. Elsa recognises the man but refuses to tell anyone – least of all the Swedish police force – about what she saw. Instead, she carries her secret as a dark weight on her heart • Elsa comes of age fighting two wars: one within her community, where male elders expect young women to know their place; and against the ever-escalating wave of prejudice and violence against the Sami
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