Heavy, heavy, stuff. "Setting herself a difficult task, British Columbia's Hartog debuts magnificently with a tale - said to be based on real events - of a pedophile and his not-quite-transcendent love of nature and children: a first novel at once so riveting and disquieting that it may well prove unforgettable. In the early 1900s, young Louie Olsen has come from Denmark to California to see the towering sequoias for himself and to live close to nature while observing its wonders through the eye of his camera. Foremost among those wonders is the naked beauty of children, and Louie's own childlike ways give him no lack of young acquaintances. Poetic in evoking California's landscapes and seasons, this is also painfully meticulous in detailing the black deeds of a complex man descending through a darkness still quite human to a place where demons dwell" (Kirkus Reviews).
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