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The Sorrow of Angels (Paperback)
Jon Kalman Stefansson; Translated by Philip Roughton
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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 Bardur. Three weeks, but already Bardur's ghost has
faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth
together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and
coffee while the boy reads to them from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Jens
the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen to his
horse. On his next journey to the wide open fjords he is
accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each
other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a
timeless literary masterpiece; in extraordinarily powerful language
it brings the struggle between man and nature tangibly to life. It
is the second novel in Stefansson's epic and elemental trilogy,
though all can be read independently.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE
PRIZE "The Icelandic Dickens" Irish Examiner "Stefansson shares the
elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.L.S.
Supplement "A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless
storyteller" CARSTEN JENSEN "Sometimes, in small places, life
becomes bigger" Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens
our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the
infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to
explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the
stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict
between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and
the wings of the imagination. With humour, with poetry, and with a
tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefansson explores the question
of why we live at all. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip
Roughton
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Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
Jon Kalman Stefansson; Translated by Philip Roughton, Roughton, Phil
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R306
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In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Bardur join a
boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and
Bardur, who has forgotten his waterproof as he was too absorbed in
'Paradise Lost', succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Appalled
by the death and by the fishermen's callous ability to set about
gutting the fatal catch, the boy leaves the village, intending to
return the book to its owner. The extreme hardship and danger of
the journey is of little consequence to him - he has already
resolved to join his friend in death. But once in the town he
immerses himself in the stories and lives of its inhabitants, and
decides that he cannot be with his friend just yet. Set at the turn
of the twentieth century, Heaven and Hell is a perfectly formed,
vivid and timeless story, lyrical in style, and as intense a
reading experience as the forces of the Icelandic landscape
themselves. An outstandingly moving novel.
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The Heart of Man (Paperback)
Jon Kalman Stefansson; Translated by Philip Roughton
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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. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once
again has the sense of being brought back from the grave. But this
is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including
flame-haired Alfheidur, who makes him wonder whether it is possible
to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to
Ragnheidur, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village to
which he must now inexorably return. Set in the awe-inspiring
wilderness of the extreme north, The Heart of Man is a profound
exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime
simplicity. In this conclusion to an audacious trilogy, Stefansson
brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of
the sagasmiths of old.
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Fish Have No Feet (Paperback)
Jon Kalman Stefansson; Translated by Philip Roughton
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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017 Keflavik: a
town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black
lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of
the U.S. military base, whose influences shaped Icelandic culture
from the '50s to the dawning of the new millennium. 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. And one girl he could never
forget. Layered through Ari's story is that of his grandparents in
a village on the eastern coast, a world away from modern Keflavik.
For his grandfather Oddur, life at sea was a destiny; for Margret
its elemental power brings only loneliness and fear. Both the story
of a singular family and an epic that sparkles with love, pain and
lifelong desire - with all of human life - Fish have no Feet is a
novel of profound beauty and wisdom by a major international
writer. By the author of the acclaimed trilogy, Heaven and Hell,
The Sorrow of Angels and The Heart of Man.
A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of
Iceland's most celebrated writers. At the beginning of this story
there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life - the passion
between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence, sorrow,
betrayal. Happiness and misfortune are passed down from one
generation to the next. The sorrow over what was and what might
have been weighs heavily on the characters and at the end of this
chain, for now, stands Ari, on his way to his dying father, with a
score still to be settled. The raw beauty of life is written into
the dramatic Icelandic landscape, and into a society that has
undergone great transformation within a century. In language both
archaic and lyrical, and yet entirely contemporary and full of
humour, Jon Kalman Stefansson proves himself one of the finest
European writers of his generation. A companion volume to Fish Have
No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).
Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
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