The Abduction

This won an award in Norway for literature for young people, even though seventeenth-century Norwegians are portrayed in a cruelly barbaric light as they abuse two young Inuits, who've been savagely snatched from their icy homelands. The girl, Osuqo, was violently raped many times and the boy, Poq, humiliated and foully degraded. The message is movingly, poetically relayed - 'Reason listens openly and without prejudice, and admits mistakes. Unreason always wants to use power to enforce injustice'. It'll take mature readers to get the most out of this story, which has tremendous integrity.