The Fall of the King

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780816677542
Format: Trade paperback (US)
Year: 2012
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press


Description:

Taking place during the first half of the sixteenth century, The Fall of the King tells the story of dreamy, slacking student Mikkel Thøgersen and the entanglements that ultimately bring him into service as a mercenary under King Christian II of Denmark. Moving from the Danish
countryside to Stockholm during the execution of Swedish nobility and finally to the imprisonment of Mikkel and Christian, the narrative is a lyrical encapsulation of "the fall"—the fall of country, history, individuals, and nature.