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Your Absence is Darkness
Jón Kalman Stefánsson; Translated by Philip Roughton
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Discovery Miles 4 400
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A man finds himself in a church somewhere in the Westfjords, not
knowing how he got there, or why. It's as if he has lost all his
bearings. When he discovers the inscription "Your absence is
darkness" on a tomb in the village cemetery, a woman posing as the
daughter of the deceased offers to take him to her sister who runs
the only hotel in the area. The man then realizes that he is not
just lost, but amnesiac: and yet everyone seems to know him. Little
by little, different stories then unfold as if to restore his lost
memory, plunging him into the extraordinary history of a family,
from the middle of the 19th century until 2020. Mistakes,
weaknesses and renunciations dominate the lives of these women and
men as much as the quest for happiness. All are faced with the
question of how to love, and all must make difficult choices. Your
Absence Is Darkness is striking in its scale, its construction and
its audacity: the number of characters, the span of time, the power
of feelings, the violence of destinies - the stories are embedded
in each other, forming an extraordinary mosaic, as if Stefánsson
had wanted to reconstitute the lost memory not of a character, but
of all of humanity. The result is incandescent.
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Your Absence Is Darkness
Jón Kalman Stefánsson; Translated by Philip Roughton
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Discovery Miles 4 500
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