The sorrow of angels / by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jón Kalman Stefánsson, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Roughton, Philip, translator.

Standardized Title:

Harmur englanna. English

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Manners and customs.

Iceland--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

Iceland.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

331 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : MacLehose Press, 2013.

Summary:

The winter nights are dark and still, you can almost hear the fish breathe on the sea bed. Snow is falling so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from 'Hamlet', Jens the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen solid on his horse. On his next journey across the wide open fjord and the icy landscape beyond he is accompanied by the boy. Both will risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual delivery.

Notes:

Translated from the Icelandic.

ISBN:

0857051652

9780857051653

OCLC:

841184252

Publisher Number:

99961146449