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Item Details
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THE SORROW OF ANGELS
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| By: |
Jon Kalman Stefansson, Philip Roughton (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
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£12.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857051652 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857051653 |
| Publisher: |
QUERCUS PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
1 August, 2013 |
| Pages: |
304 |
| Translated from: |
Icelandic |
| Description: |
A tragi-comic, epic journey through Iceland's snowy landscape - the second in a trilogy that began with Heaven and Hell. |
| Synopsis: |
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 open fjords he is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless literary masterpiece; in extraordinarily powerful language it brings the struggle between man and nature tangibly to life. It is the second novel in Stefansson's epic and elemental trilogy, though all can be read independently. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
MacLehose Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Shadow Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2014. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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