The past returns with a fury for a woman coming to terms with her
life in this award-winning novel by an acclaimed Icelandic author
making her English-language debut. Elin Jonsdottir lives an
isolated existence in Reykjavik, Iceland, making props and
prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In
her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with
another loner, Ellen Alfsdottir, a sensitive young playwright and
illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused
maternal feelings in Elin, but she has also stirred discomfiting
memories long packed away. Because their paths have crossed before.
One doesn't remember. The other is about to forget. Soon they'll
discover all they have in common: difficult childhoods, trauma, and
being outliers who have found space to breathe in creative
expression. Yet the more Elin tries to connect with the young woman
and unbox painful memories, the more tenuous her grasp on reality
becomes. Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart
is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and
isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the
author's generation.
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