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by J?n Kalman Stef?nsson
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Availability:In StockContributor:J?n Kalman Stef?nsson, Philip Roughton (Translator)Series:Trilogy about the Boy #1Publish date:02/04/25Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:BiblioasisISBN-13:9781771966511ISBN-10:1771966513UPC:9781771966511Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, Coming of AgeSize:7.70 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCWASHHFB5

"Stef?nsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy."--Eileen Battersby, TLS

In a remote fishing village, a boy and his best friend spend the lonely hours on shore reading and talking about poetry. When the friend, absorbed in a borrowed copy of Paradise Lost, forgets his oilskin one morning and the crew is unexpectedly caught at sea in a savage winter storm, tragedy strikes. Overwhelmed by grief--and his crewmates' indifference to what has happened--the boy leaves the village, determined to return the book to its owner. The hardship and danger of the journey is of little consequence: he's already resolved to join his friend in death. But when he reaches the town where he intends to end his days, he couldn't have imagined the stories and lives he finds.

Navigating the depths of despair to celebrate the redemptive power of friendship, Heaven and Hell is an incandescent story of community, resilience, and love from one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists.

Language:EnglishPublisher:BiblioasisISBN-13:9781771966511ISBN-10:1771966513UPC:9781771966511Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Historical, Coming of AgeSize:7.70 x 5.20 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SCWASHHFB5

J?n Kalman Stef?nsson'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). A subsequent novel, Fish Have No Feet, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 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 Halld?r Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of J?n Kalman Stef?nsson's The Heart of Man, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.


Publisher: Biblioasis

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J?n Kalman Stef?nsson, Philip Roughton (Translator)

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J?n Kalman Stef?nsson

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