Exploration of life, love, and desire, set in the extreme north, The Human Heart is a profound exploration of life, love, and desire, written with a sublime simplicity.

The Heart of Man

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

MacLehose Press

Fish Have No Feet

Quercus Publishing

About The Size Of The Universe

Literature & Fiction

Philip Roughton

Literary

In 1897 W G Collingwood and Jn Stefnsson undertook a journey to Iceland in order to visit, explore and paint the locations of some of the most prominent sagas of Icelanders. After their return to Britain they wrote an account of their journey which, as they themselves succinctly put it, aimed primarily to be ""a picture book to illustrate the sagas of Iceland"". A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland more than fulfilled this modest aim, its text accompanied by more than forty paintings and drawings by Collingwood, a unique record of saga sites and of the Icelandic landscape. Today it is one of the classics of English travel writing on Iceland. The present volume presents a facsimile of the original 1899 edition of the Pilgrimage, reproducing the volume in its original size, with full-colour reproductions of the original colour plates, and hard-back binding.

A Pilgrimage to the Saga-Steads of Iceland 2015

Poetry

Viking Society for Northern Research

Your Absence Is Darkness

Quercus Maclehose Press

In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barethur join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barethur, who has forgotten his waterproof as he was too absorbed in 'Paradise Lost', succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Appalled by the death and by the fishermen's callous ability to set about gutting the fatal catch, the boy leaves the village, intending to return the book to its owner. The extreme hardship and danger of the journey is of little consequence to him - he has already resolved to join his friend in death. But once in the town he immerses himself in the stories and lives of its inhabitants, and decides that he cannot be with his friend just yet. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, Heaven and Hell is a perfectly formed, vivid and timeless story, lyrical in style, and as intense a reading experience as the forces of the Icelandic landscape themselves. An outstandingly moving novel.

Heaven and Hell. J[n Kalman Stefnsson

History

Europe

Dein Fortsein ist Finsternis

Piper

凯夫拉维克被称为冰岛最黑暗的地方,荒芜的熔岩,不能捕鱼的海,赶不走的美国军事基地。 作家和出版商阿里因重病的父亲回到这里,少不更事的回忆汹涌而来,平克·弗洛伊德、偷美军卡车上的物资和一个他忘不掉的女孩。 祖父与祖母是在东峡湾的海面上用勇气和意志拼出了生活的冰岛人,那时古老的风尚仍在流行,男人靠出海带来荣耀和光辉,女人在岸上忍受残酷的等待。祖辈的爱情,对自然的赞美和生命的光荣都深深吸引着阿里。 在这同一片群山和海洋的地方,曾经的荣耀为什么变成只剩利润而非心跳的生命,阿里心中升起无法承受的问号。

Fish Have No Feet (Chinese Edition)

Sichuan Literature & Art Publishing House

La tua assenza ? tenebra

Iperborea

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