The Sorrow of Angels
$34.58
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2015
Summary
It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Bardur. Three weeks, but already Bardur’s ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together.
As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the wide…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857389121 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857389122 |
| Author: | Philip Roughton, Jón Kalman Stefánsson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2015 |
| Weight: | 238g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 132mm x 22mm |
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‘A wonderful, exceptional writer … a timeless storyteller’ Carsten Jensen.
A spellbinding novel, beautifully written in a lyrical, poetic style - Jacqui Patience, Shadow Independent Foreign Fiction Prize judge.
A wonderful, exceptional writer…a timeless storyteller - Carsten JensenAbout The Author
Philip Roughton
Jon Kalman Stefansson was born in Reykjavik in 1963. His novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature (2001, 2004, 2007) and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005.
Phil Roughton is the translator of, among others, the works of Halldor Laxness and The Islander, a biography of Laxness by Halldor Gudmundsson. He lives and works in Reykjavik.
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