Name: Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night von Jon Kalman Stefansson
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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night Zusammenfassung

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night Jon Kalman Stefansson

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE

The Icelandic Dickens Irish Examiner

Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.L.S. Supplement

A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller CARSTEN JENSEN

Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger

Sometimes 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.

The 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, Stefansson explores the question of why we live at all.

Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night Bewertungen

Stefansson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. -- Boyd Tonkin * Spectator *
Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy -- Eileen Battersby * 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 * Nora O'Mahony *
A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller * Carsten Jensen *
The Icelandic Dickens . . . He has the same gift of writing with great understanding, an empathy with troubled souls and a skill at laugh-out-loud comedy -- Tina Neylon * Irish Examiner *

Über Jon Kalman Stefansson

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). Philip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous writers including Halldor Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jon Kalman Stefansson's The Heart of Man, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe. Philip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous writers including Halldor Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jon Kalman Stefansson's The Heart of Man, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.

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Sku

GOR011802433

ISBN 13

9780857059765

ISBN 10

0857059769

Titel

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night Jon Kalman Stefansson

Autor

Jon Kalman Stefansson

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Quercus Publishing

Datum

2021-02-18

Anzahl der Seiten

320

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