🎬 Åben himmel

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Åben himmel (Open Sky) is a historical novel by Danish author Jonas Eika, published in 2024. The 705-page book is set in Liège, Belgium, spanning from Easter to Easter in 1233-1234, and follows a community of beguines - lay religious women who lived outside the Church's formal structures. The protagonist Ida begins experiencing visions and reluctantly steps into the role of prophet. The novel won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.