The Forest of Hours

Kerstin Ekman

Vintage, 1999 - Fiction - 488 pages

Skord is a magical being who is neither man nor animal. This novel begins in the Middle Ages when Skord finds himself in a forest with no memory, no past and no language. As he observes the behaviour of the human beings he meets in the forest, he begins to gradually to understand human civilisation and to learn their language.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Forest of Hours
• Author: Kerstin Ekman
• Translated by: Anna Paterson
• Edition: reprint, revised
• Publisher: Vintage, 1999
• ISBN: 0099751712, 9780099751717
• Length: 488 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General