Your absence is darkness / Jón Kalman Stefánsson ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jón Kalman Stefánsson, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Roughton, Philip, translator.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Standardized Title:

Fjarvera þín er myrkur. English

Language:

English

Icelandic

Subjects (All):

Country life--Fiction.

Country life.

Communities--Fiction.

Communities.

Iceland--Fiction.

Iceland.

Genre:

Novels.

Physical Description:

431 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Windsor, Ontario : Biblioasis, 2024.

Summary:

"A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realizes he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recall either sister, nor their mother, the woman buried beneath the stone. As their stories unfold, he's plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger from afar; a woman who must abandon her son to save her family; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of happiness. An incandescent romance about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, Your Absence Is Darkness is a spellbinding story of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Translation of: Fjarvera þín er myrkur.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Jón Kalman Stefánsson, 1963- Fjarvera þín er myrkur. English. Your absence is darkness.

ISBN:

9781771965811

1771965819

OCLC:

1376495732