The country of long shadows ( Top of the world in the original title) is a 1950 adventure novel writer Hans Ruesch . Repeatedly adapted to the movies, the action takes place on the pole, a place inhabited by Eskimos players in history.
Synopsis:
A novel single that connects us with a different life, where the nights last five months and the times are measured by the passage of the moons. Tiny igloo on the frozen sea, in which the family plays a fundamental role of women is essential and scarce, the relationship is sincere and spontaneous, and the kisses are rubbing your nose and have real meaning. But there is no place where it comes, sooner or later, the white man. And arrives bringing rarities such as guns, snuff, oil and the unusual design of one God. Their customs are too different from the Eskimos. Can you live with two cultures so opposed? This book tells of how exciting the life of several generations of Eskimos in the lands end white North of the world. A lesson in life that catches from beginning to end. The country of long shadows is a literary classic that you can not stop reading.
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