The Sorrow of Angels

Recalls a Nordic version of one of Cormac McCarthy's journeys ... Devour this book with a hot drink in a warm room' Boyd Tonkin, Independent .

About the author

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).

Summary

A tragi-comic, epic journey through Iceland's snowy landscape - the second in a trilogy that began with Heaven and Hell.

Foreword

A tragi-comic, epic journey through Iceland's snowy landscape - the second in a trilogy that began with Heaven and Hell.

Product details

• Authors: Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jon Kalman Stefansson
• Assisted by: Philip Roughton (Translation), Roughton Philip (Translation)
• Publisher: Quercus Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.02.2015
• EAN: 9780857389121
• ISBN: 978-0-85738-912-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 197 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Iceland, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, TRAVEL / Europe / Iceland & Greenland