Fr. 20.50

Seal Mother

English · Paperback / Softback

Will be released 01.09.2025

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The narrator of Cow Seal is a woman who lives by Iceland's northernmost coast, where the struggle for life is hard, winters attack with sea ice and cold. Her husband dies, a child dies, and other calamities follow, but the woman and her children never give up. They endure. The woman helps a seal give birth - the boundaries between man and animal, culture and nature disappear in this magical book. The text is chiselled, the poems traditional in form with alliteration and internal rhyme reminiscent of ancient metres which underscore the timelessness and relevance of the work to the constant struggle for life that is the lot of both humans and animals.

Product details

Authors Gerður Kristny
Assisted by Rory McTurk (Translation)
Publisher Arc Publications
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Release 01.09.2025
 
EAN 9781911469933
ISBN 978-1-911469-93-3
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry
Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies

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