--- description: Find out why "The End of Drum-Time" by Hanna Pylväinen is on TIME's list of the must-read books of the year. title: 'The End of Drum-Time' Is One of the 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856515c8ca3b78ef/698a4204096a94b6396ae4b8/TheEndOfDrumline.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 14, 2023 # The End of Drum-Time by Hanna Pylväinen by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  In Hanna Pylväinen’s second novel, it’s 1851 and a Lutheran minister in a remote Scandinavian village is intent on converting Swedes, Finns, and a group of Sámi reindeer herders to his religion. After he starts to convince even the most skeptical, his followers grow tenfold. Then, something shifts: a prominent herder buys in big time, and his spiritual awakening leads him to abandon his son Ivvár, who is forced to tend to the family’s reindeer all alone. Ivvár happens to run into the minister’s daughter—each of them a puzzle for the other to figure out—and she prepares to join him on the annual spring migration. _The End of Drum-Time_ is a deeply researched story about obedience, defiance, and what happens when the tectonic plates of two different cultures collide. —_Meg Zukin_ **Buy Now:** _The End of Drum-Time_ on [Bookshop](https://bookshop.org/a/4973/9781250822901 "undefined") | [Amazon](https://amzn.to/40q0OC9 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332675/the-end-of-drum-time/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332675/the-end-of-drum-time/"},"headline":"The End of Drum-Time","datePublished":"2023-11-14T12:30:40.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:25:52.214Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332675/the-end-of-drum-time/","keywords":["Books","list","best books"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856515c8ca3b78ef/698a4204096a94b6396ae4b8/TheEndOfDrumline.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt856515c8ca3b78ef/698a4204096a94b6396ae4b8/TheEndOfDrumline.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332675/the-end-of-drum-time/","name":"The End of Drum-Time"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2023","description":"","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/WppeqCEz/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2023-11-13T19:20:52.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/WppeqCEz.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332675/the-end-of-drum-time/","duration":"PT1M28S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/must-read-books-2023/6332675/the-end-of-drum-time/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```