The Land of Dreams – University of Minnesota Press. Vidar Sundstol, Translated by Tiina Nunnally.
9780816689408 $24.95 cloth/jacket. Winner of the Riverton Prize for best Norwegian crime novel of the year-the first novel in the internationally best-selling Minnesota Trilogy.

The Land of Dreams is the chilling first installment in Sundstol’s critically acclaimed Minnesota Trilogy set on the rugged north shore of Lake Superior. Lance Hansen, a U.S. Forest Service officer, quiet routines are shattered one morning when he comes upon a Norwegian tourist brutally murdered near a stone cross on the shore of Lake Superior. Another Norwegian man is nearby, covered in blood and staring out across the lake, he can only utter one word kjaerlighet. Love. This is a riveting and well researched portrait of an extraordinary landscape and hidden traumas and paths of silence that trouble history, and a haunting study in guilt and the bonds of blood.