Svendsen, Hanne Marie — GOLD BALL

Alfred A. Knopf New York NY First US Edition Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Translated from the Danish by Jorgen Schiott. A woman searches for her family's roots and genealogy on an island off the coast of Denmark, a land populated by the descendants of a mysterious, heroic, and ideosyncratic figure, and discovers a namesake, Maja Stina, an ancestor who possessed magical powers.