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About the Size of the Universe

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    320 pages

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    20 March 2019

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Summary

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland’s most celebrated writers.

At the beginning of this story there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life - the passion between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence, sorrow, betrayal. Happiness and misfortune are passed down from one generation to the next. The sorrow over what was and what might have been weighs heavily on the characters and at the end of this chain, for now, stands Ari, on his wa…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857056023
ISBN-10:0857056026
Author:Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:20 March 2019
Weight:243g
Dimensions:195mm x 130mm x 24mm
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Critics Review

Stefansson’s prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. - Spectator.

Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy - Times Literary Supplement

Powerful and sparkling … Prize-winning translator Philip Roughton’s feather-light touch brings out the gleaming, fairy-tale quality of the writing - Irish Times

A wonderful, exceptional writer … A timeless storyteller.

About The Author

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy - Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) - and for Fish Have No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).

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