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Ronia, the Robber's Daughter

Astrid Lindgren · 1981 CE · Novel · Nordic · Contemporary

Born in a robbers' keep on the night lightning splits it in two, a chief's daughter grows up learning the forest — its harpies, its grey dwarfs, and the chasm she has to jump. A rival band moves into the far half of the castle, and the boy she meets on the wrong side of the gap becomes a friendship that is treason to both fathers. Lindgren's last novel sets a wilderness childhood against a feud the children never chose.

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