The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Man

Author: Jørn Eliasson

Illustrator: Pyotr Perevezentsev

Translator: Lyubov Gorlina

Publisher: Samokat

Series: Point of Departure

Pages: 200 (Offset)

Weight: 592 g

Dimensions: 240x173x19 mm

ISBN: 978-5-91759-039-4

A book for teenagers by Danish writer and researcher Jørn Eliasson about Leif, a Viking boy who ends up among the Greenlandic Eskimos—the Inuit—after a shipwreck. Thanks to Nuroa and Apuluk, his adopted brother and sister, he learns to speak the local language, build igloos in the snow, take only what he needs from nature, and live in a large family where everything is shared. In the Eskimo language, "Inuit" means "person". As the little Viking grows up, will he be able to renounce revenge, wealth, and power, which mean so much to his own people, in order to become a true "person"?

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