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Book SynopsisAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE
The Icelandic Dickens Irish Examiner
Stefánsson 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, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all.
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Trade Review
Stefánsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. -- Boyd Tonkin * Spectator *
Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy -- Eileen Battersby * Times Literary Supplement *
Powerful and sparkling . . . Prize-winning translator Philip Roughton's feather-light touch brings out the gleaming, fairy-tale quality of the writing -- Irish Times * Nora O'Mahony *
A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller * Carsten Jensen *
The Icelandic Dickens . . . He has the same gift of writing with great understanding, an empathy with troubled souls and a skill at laugh-out-loud comedy -- Tina Neylon * Irish Examiner *
