Sorrow of Angels

It is three weeks since the  boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea  captain-the poetry Bárour died for. Three weeks, but already Bárour'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 Hamlet, Jens  the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse.  On his next journey to the fjords Jens 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 and  powerful story that evokes the struggle of man against the ferocious  majesty of nature. Asked by The Independent what inspired him to write  these three novels, Stefánsson named his first visit to the landscape of  Iceland's West Fjords. "It was like a punch in the solar plexus . . .  The mountains seemed to be saying, 'Why aren't you writing about us?"

Literature & Fiction

Kalman Stefánsson, Jón

Contemporary

MacLehose Press

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017
Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influences shaped Icelandic culture from the '50s to the dawning of the new millennium. 
 Ari - a writer and publisher - lands back in Keflavik from Copenhagen. His father is dying, and he is flooded by memories of his youth in the '70s and '80s, listening to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, raiding American supply lorries and discovering girls. And one girl he could never forget. Layered through Ari's story is that of his grandparents in a village on the eastern coast, a world away from modern Keflavik. For his grandfather Oddur, life at sea was a destiny; for Margrét its elemental power brings only loneliness and fear. Both the story of a singular family and an epic that sparkles with love, pain and lifelong desire - with all of human life - Fish have no Feet is a novel of profound beauty and wisdom by a major international writer. By the author of the acclaimed trilogy, Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels and The Heart of Man.

Fish Have No Feet

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 way to his dying father, with a score still to be settled. The raw beauty of life is written into the dramatic Icelandic landscape, and into a society that has undergone great transformation within a century. In language both archaic and lyrical, and yet entirely contemporary and full of humour, Jn Kalman Stefnsson proves himself one of the finest European writers of his generation.A companion volume to Fish Have No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

About the Size of the Universe

Literary

"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger" 
Sometimes a distance from the noise of the world opens our hearts, our senses, our dreams. An intensity of feelings erupts from the life of a village of four hundred souls in the Icelandic countryside, where the infinite light of summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. It becomes a microcosm of the eternal conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination. 
The director who immerses himself in Latin and astronomy to the point of abandoning everything for the secrets of the universe, the greedy postman who reads every letter and then publicizes the villagers' private affairs, the lawyer who believes that the world is based on calculus, but then discovers that he cannot count the fish in the sea or his own tears. 
With the enchantment of poetry, and full of humour and tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all, and at the same time immerses us fully in the river of life. 
Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE\n"The Icelandic Dickens" Irish Examiner\n"Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.L.S. Supplement\n"A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller" CARSTEN JENSEN\n"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger"\nSometimes 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.\nThe 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 humour, with poetry, and with a tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all.\nTranslated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

Quercus Publishing

The Heart of Man

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. 
Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has the sense of being brought back from the grave. But this is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame-haired Álfheiður, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheiður, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village to which he must now inexorably return. 
Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north, The Heart of Man is a profound exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime simplicity. In this conclusion to an audacious trilogy, Stefánsson brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old.

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Sorrow of Angels

Fish Have No Feet

About the Size of the Universe

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

Sorrow of Angels

The Heart of Man