Summer light, and then comes the night : a novel / Jón Kalman Stefánsson ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.
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, Stefaansson explores the question of why we live at all.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780063136472
- Physical Description: 249 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First HarperVia edition.
- Publisher: New York, New York : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published as Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin in 2006. |
Awards Note: | Winner of The Icelandic Literature Prize, 2005. |
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Subject: | Interpersonal relations > Fiction. Gossip > Fiction. Villages > Iceland > Fiction. Desire > Fiction. Iceland > Fiction. |
Genre: | Icelandic fiction. Domestic fiction. Magic realist fiction. Humorous fiction. |
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Fernie Heritage Library | FIC JON (Text) | 35136000612441 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |