Stolen

SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM
THE INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER
'Written with heart and great appeal' FINANCIAL TIMES
'A coming-of-age-story to be loved everywhere in the world' FREDRIK BACKMAN, author of A MAN CALLED OVE
'Has struck a chord worldwide' NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
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The international sensation: the story of a young Sámi girl's coming-of-age, and a powerful fable about family, identity and justice
Nine-year-old Elsa lives just north of the Arctic Circle. She and her family are Sámi - Scandinavia's indigenous people - and make their living herding reindeer.
One morning when Elsa goes skiing alone, she witnesses a man brutally killing her reindeer calf, Nástegallu. Elsa recognises the man but refuses to tell anyone - least of all the Swedish police force - about what she saw. Instead, she carries her secret as a dark weight on her heart.
Elsa comes of age fighting two wars: one within her community, where male elders expect young women to know their place; and against the ever-escalating wave of prejudice and violence against the Sámi.
When Elsa finds herself the target of the man who killed her reindeer calf all those years ago, something inside of her finally breaks. The guilt, fear, and anger she's been carrying since childhood come crashing over her like an avalanche, and will lead Elsa to a final catastrophic confrontation.

Ann-Helén Laestadius is an author and journalist from Kiruna, Sweden. She is of Sámi and Tornedalian descent, two of Sweden's national minorities. Published in Sweden in January 2021, Stolen is Laestadius's first adult novel. A national number one bestseller in Sweden, it has been sold into twenty-two territories and has been voted the Book of the Year. Laestadius has also been awarded the Adlibris Award for best novel, the Your Book Our Choice Prize given by the Swedish Association for Bookstore Employees, and the Västerbottens-Kuriren Culture Prize. She lives with her family in Solna outside of Stockholm. Stolen is being adapted for a major film for Netflix, to be released in 2024.