Kniven i ilden / Terä tulessa

Ingeborg Arvola's captivating historical novel has gone straight to the heart of a record-breaking audience. The book has received fantastic reviews and has sold 60,000 copies. Finally, the book is being staged!

The year is 1859. Brita Caisa is alone with two children. To give her children the security they deserve, she straps on her skis and sets off on the long journey from Finland to Norway to find a man she can have a safe life with. On the way, things happen that shouldn't happen.

Brita Caisa is a woman who leaves, a woman who dares to stand up to the condemnation of others. The Knife in the Fire is a captivating story about work and love, strong unity and free eroticism, the individual and the authorities.

Arvola's own great-great-great-grandmother
Brita Caisa Seipajærvi was Ingeborg Arvola's great-great-great-grandmother. Arvola writes so that you can smell the blood after the reindeer slaughter, taste the mullets, feel the cold from the snow and the warmth from the fire. Arvola also highlights the Kven and Sami culture and gives us a unique picture of a story that should have a greater place in our collective memory.

When the book becomes a theater for the whole country with the Riksteatret and Kväänitatteri, it is star director Cecilie Mosli (Grey’s Anatomy, Three Nuts for Cinderella, The Snow Queen) who brings Arvola’s magnificent epic to the stage with Lena Kristin Ellingsen, Ivar Beddari, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Arthur Hakalahti, Bernt Bjørn and Pernille Sandøy in the roles.