Hauke

When the dikemaster dies, his mantle falls upon Hauke, who also marries, very happily, his daughter.

Translation 2010

"Something living has got to go into it," one man tells Hauke, "Even our grandfathers knew that much ...."

A Different Stripe: 2009

There is an extraordinary moment in The Rider on the White Horse when Hauke's wife is sick, and Hauke, unusually, prays:

Translation 2010

Hauke Heien is a boy from a modest farming background who, with a talent for numbers and a fascination with the ways of water, apprentices himself to the local dikemaster and soon makes himself indispensable.

A Different Stripe: 2009

A world in which you cannot trust your eyes or anything, much less — Hauke will discover — know yourself.

A Different Stripe: 2009

Hauke Heien is a boy from a modest farming background who, with a talent for numbers and a fascination with the ways of water, apprentices himself to the local dikemaster and soon makes himself indispensable.

Translation 2010

"Something living has got to go into it," one man tells Hauke, "Even our grandfathers knew that much ...."

Translation 2010

A silence that is at the heart of Storm's story, where the natural world is prowled by supernatural apparitions, while the supernatural itself, the divine — even the poignantly limited God, able only to help a bit, that Hauke addresses — never appears.

From the editor 2009

So it appears, and yet Hauke remains a lonely figure, with only wife and child for company, distrusted by the larger community.

A Different Stripe: 2009

To open new fields, Hauke orders the construction of a new dike, built on new principles.

Translation 2010