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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
Jón Kalman Stefánsson
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Description for Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
Paperback.
AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE
"The Icelandic Dickens" Irish Examiner
"Stefánsson 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.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857059765
SKU
9780857059765
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Jón Kalman Stefánsson'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 ... Read more
Reviews for Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
Stefánsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour.
Boyd Tonkin
Spectator
Stefánsson 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, ... Read more
Boyd Tonkin
Spectator
Stefánsson 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, ... Read more