Summer light, and then comes the night : a novel / 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:

Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin. English

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations--Fiction.

Interpersonal relations.

Villages.

Small cities.

Iceland.

Gossip--Fiction.

Gossip.

City and town life--Fiction.

City and town life.

Small cities--Fiction.

Villages--Iceland--Fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

249 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First HarperVia edition.

Other Title:

Summerlight, and then comes the night

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.

Summary:

"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination. With humor, poetry, and a tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"Originally published as Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin in Iceland in 2006 by Bjartur"

ISBN:

9780063136472

0063136473

9780063136489

0063136481

OCLC:

1228637518