Heaven and Hell

Zusatztext 'The author has a lyrical! poetic style ... the action unfolds vividly and dramatically! and the reader feels part of the scene. The combination creates an unusually intense reading experience' Alannah Hopkinson! Irish Examiner. Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext An poetic, heart-rending saga by Iceland's foremost contemporary writer.An poetic, heart-rending saga by Iceland's foremost contemporary writer. Zusammenfassung An poetic, heart-rending saga by Iceland's foremost contemporary writer.

Product details

• Authors: Stefansson Kalman, Jon Kalman Stefansson, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jon Stefansson, Jon Kalman Stefansson, Jon Stefansson Kalman
• Assisted by: Roughton Phil (Translation), Philip Roughton (Translation), Roughton Philip (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781849164061
• ISBN: 978-1-84916-406-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Iceland, Fiction in translation, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, NATURE / Weather, Fishing, angling, TRAVEL / Europe / Nordic Countries / Iceland & Greenland