Picture Maker

Om boken

A brilliant, powerful historical saga set in 14th-century America. The girl known as Picture Maker, renowned for her drawing and prophetic abilities, is the daughter of a warrior and granddaughter of a clan leader. When captured by her family's enemies and enslaved, she discovers she is pregnant by one of her captors and manages to escape. Inspired by the destiny she had depicted in her art, Picture Maker begins a long, mysterious journey across the Western Hemisphere. She finds temporary peace with an Inuit tribe until she meets and falls in love with Halvard, a Norse hunter who seems to hold the key to the riddle of her birth. Together they travel to Greenland, but Picture Maker's special gifts make her regarded with suspicion. When Halvard is attacked and her daughter is taken from her, she faces a terrible repetition of her past suffering. At its heart, Picture Maker is a novel of high adventure, love and loss, and survival under the harshest circumstances. With a large cast of vivid characters and a rich portrayal of the period's societies and religions, it tells the story of an amazing and very human survivor who grows beyond her once narrow, ordered confines.