Ivalu’s Color by Nauja Lynge


Ivalu’s Color
Title : Ivalu’s Color
Author :
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ISBN : 0996748008
ISBN-10 : 9780996748001
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 224
Publication : First published May 2, 2017

Greenland, circa 2015. Three women are found murdered in the capital city Nuuk. Ongoing issues in the country involving the desire for independence from the Kingdom of Denmark are redirected, as race and gender recolor the scene, and the mystery unravels in clashing graphic detail. An intertwined story of corruption, greed, domination, and sovereignty reveals itself through the discoveries of three investigatorsRussian, Chinese, and a Danish Greenlander. The politics at hand are reenacted in the very act of investigating the murders, revealing the Inuit of Greenland as the true and only victims of this crime.

Ivalu’s Color Reviews

  • Christian

    I ordered this last year because I wanted to read something by a Greenlandic author. I'll admit never expected the book to be quite this good though. After the murder of three Greenlandic women found inside a shipping container, a Greenlandic, Russian and Chinese trio attempt to solve the case individually, each for their own ends and reasons.
    Through the murder of the activists, the author has very cleverly woven in a plot that deals with the socioeconomic and political issues that are present in Greenland today; in essence, the murder is used as a platform to explore these issues, while the murder investigation is still always at the forefront.
    The novel 'lacks' in description of climate that I've come used to in other Nordic novels, however this doesn't detract in any way from the plot. Due to the political and socioeconomic subplots, this may not be everyone's cup of tea, but I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and the Greenlandic flavour of it.