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Summer light, and then comes the night / Jón Kalman Stefansson ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.
LIBRA PT7511.J53915 S8613 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jón Kalman Stefánsson, 1963- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin. English
- Language:
- English
- Icelandic
- Subjects (All):
- Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
- Interpersonal relations.
- Villages.
- Iceland.
- Gossip--Fiction.
- Gossip.
- Villages--Iceland--Fiction.
- Iceland--Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 249 pages ; 22 cm
- Other Title:
- Summer light, & then comes the night
- Place of Publication:
- London : Maclehose Press, 2020.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Icelandic.
- Summary:
- "Sometimes a distance from the noise of the world opens our hearts, our senses, our dreams. An intensity of feelings erupts from the life of a village of four hundred souls in the Icelandic countryside, where the infinite light of summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. It becomes a microcosm of the eternal conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination. The director who immerses himself in Latin and astronomy to the point of abandoning everything for the secrets of the universe, the greedy postman who reads every letter and then publicizes the villagers' private affairs, the lawyer who believes that the world is based on calculus, but then discovers that he cannot count the fish in the sea or his own tears."--Publisher website.
- Contents:
- The universe and a dark velvet dress
- Tears are shaped like rowing boats
- Should we admit to being idiots?
- What is related to the noun "Apocalypse"
- A man thinks about many things in a forest, especially when a big river runs through it
- Bliss
- Tekla and the man who couldn't count the fish
- What sort of shitty world would this be without her?
- Notes:
- "First published as Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin by Bjartur, Reykjavik, in 2006"--Verso.
- ISBN:
- 9780857059758
- 0857059750
- OCLC:
- 1143733953
- Publisher Number:
- 99984146084
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