A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists.
ISBN:
9781529418781
Author:
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Page:
432
Binding:
Hard cover
Publication date:
2024
Format:
Book
Publisher:
MACLEHOSE PRESS
Language:
English
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Price: 11 150 Ft
Stock: 1-10 copies
Description
A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realises he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer's wife whose essay on the humble earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastorwho writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky.