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Cold Earth

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A team of six archaeologists from the United States, England, and Scotland assembles at the beginning of the Arctic summer to unearth traces of the lost Viking settlements in Greenland. But as they sink into uneasy domesticity, there is news of an epidemic back home, and their communications with the outside world fall away. Facing a Greenland winter for which they are hopelessly ill-equipped, Nina, Ruth, Catriona, Jim, Ben, and Yianni, knowing that their missives may never reach their loved ones, write final letters home. These letters make up the narrative of Cold Earth, with each section of the book comprised of one character's first-person perspective in letter form. In this exceptional and haunting debut novel, Moss weaves a rich tapestry of personal narrative, history, love, grief, and naked survival. Cold Earth is both a heart-pounding thriller and a highly sophisticated novel of ideas.

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PUBLISHED
Berkeley, CA : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 280 p. ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781582435794
1582435790

SUBJECTS
Archaeologists -- Greenland -- Fiction.
Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Greenland -- Fiction.
Greenland -- Fiction.
Epistolary fiction.