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While enduring a bleak existence in a hospital for lepers in Norway during the early 1800s, thirteen-year-old Tora tries to find meaning in a life surrounded by death.
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1 edition- Other · English · 1998Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 245 pages · 9780374317010
Christian lifeDeathDiseasesFictionLeprosyChildren's fictionDiseases, fictionDeath, fiction