THE DARK LIGHT
Mette Newth, , trans. by Faith Ingwersen. . FSG/Sunburst, $6.95 (245pp) ISBN 978-0-374-41688-1
A 13-year-old girl joins the ranks of the "living dead" in an early-19th-century leprosy hospital in Norway. "The heroine's morbid plight is heartrending but less pressing than her determination to extract meaning and even beauty from a seemingly cruel world," wrote
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Reviewed on: 05/10/2004
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 245 pages - 978-0-374-31701-0
