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The Heart of Man

Englisch · Taschenbuch

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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 OlfheiO.ur, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to RagnheiO.ur, 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, Stefànsson brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jón Kalman Stefánsson's novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy - Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) - and for Fish Have No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).Philip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous writers including Halldór Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's The Heart of Man, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.

Zusammenfassung

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 Álfheiður, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheiður, 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, Stefánsson brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old.

Produktdetails

Autoren Jon Kalman Stefansson, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jon Kalman Stefansson, Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Mitarbeit Philip Roughton (Übersetzung)
Verlag Quercus Publishing
 
Sprache Englisch
Produktform Taschenbuch
Erschienen 29.02.2016
 
EAN 9781848662360
ISBN 978-1-84866-236-0
Seiten 368
Abmessung 131 mm x 198 mm x 26 mm
Themen Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur

FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, Iceland, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, TRAVEL / Europe / Iceland & Greenland

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