Dàlvi - Sei anni nell'Artico

Dálvi in the Northern Sami language means "winter". When Laura Galloway decides to take a DNA test and discovers that part of it is of the Sami ethnic group, she is convinced to undertake a journey to the extreme part of Scandinavia, where the tundra and extensive plains are home to shy and tough men and women, resistant animals and landscapes. wonderful. She was immediately attracted to the change of life. Here she meets the man, a reindeer herder, who will be her boyfriend for a few months. Once the relationship ends, instead of returning to her old New York life, she decides to stay. He moves to a small town on the Norwegian tundra and begins to enter into the life and customs of the local people. Learn the language and ancient rules of this remote community. In solitude, immersed in the snow and in the wild heart of uncontaminated nature, she reconstructs the exposed nerves of her existence, the death of her mother when she was still little, the relationship with her adoptive mother and all the reflections on our technological, hyper-connected and hyper-gentrified world they find some surprising answers. Dálvi is a moving and curious memoir about one of the least known populations in the world. For anyone who has always dreamed of living in or visiting the far north, this book will be a revelation.