A prizewinning novel of untamed murder sex and Christianity in thefrozenlandscapes and treacherous waters of Iceland Translated from the French byHester Velmans... » 

A prizewinning novel of untamed murder sex and Christianity in thefrozenlandscapes and treacherous waters of Iceland Translated from the French byHester Velmans Years ago a group left Europe to start a colony in Iceland.But as the years wore on communication between the colony and the people backhome stopped. Had the people of New Thule have gone nativeor worse yet gonepagan? A cardinal ordered an evangelical mission in order to see what hasbecome of the people and to revive their faith. But the Short Serpent themissions ship carried its crew toward a horror that no one could conceive.Told in an elegant compulsive and increasingly unhinged style Bernard duBoucherons The Voyage of the Short Serpent is a masterpiece about mutablehuman morality in inhuman conditionsa story about truth obsession and themyth of utopia. «