Dans les deux volumes de ce dyptique romanesque contemporain, Jón Kalman Stefánsson entremele les destins singuliers des membres d'une famille et des habitants d'une petite île islandaise.
Ari - a writer and publisher - lands back in Keflavik from Copenhagen. His father is dying, and he is flooded by memories of his youth in the '70s and '80s, listening to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, raiding American supply lorries and discovering girls.
«Mentre bevo un caffe caldo, nero, / rovesci di ghiaccio sferzano la finestra, / un gattino di sei mesi sonnecchia mordendo / la mano di chi scrive queste righe, / e una cagna di nove anni dorme, / acciambellata ai suoi piedi, / grata per la vita.»
After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world.
It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bár?ur. Three weeks, but already Bár?ur's ghost has faded.
In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, determined to live a life of independence.
Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later.
Victor Svensson har stora planer för Alderheims konsthandel, vägen till makt och inflytande gar via konsthandlarens dotter Jenny - en försynt, ung kvinna som älskar expressionismen mer än nagot annat.
It’s always awkward when five thousand kronor goes missing. When it happens at a certain grotty hotel in south Stockholm, it’s particularly awkward because the money belongs to the hitman currently staying in room seven.
Johan Andersson – seit seinen zahllosen Gefängnisaufenthalten nur noch "Mörder-Anders" genannt – ist frisch aus dem Knast entlassen und braucht einen neuen Job sowie neue Freunde.
Johan Andersson – seit seinen zahllosen Gefängnisaufenthalten nur noch "Mörder-Anders" genannt – ist frisch aus dem Knast entlassen und braucht einen neuen Job sowie neue Freunde.