A Tale Of Dos Los Isla De Islandia An Critically Acclaimed Short Story
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A Tale Of Dos Los Isla De Islandia An Critically Acclaimed Short Story
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Author : Brian M. Bolden
language : en
Publisher: Brian Bolden
Release Date : 2020-01-01
A Tale Of Dos Los Isla De Islandia An Critically Acclaimed Short Story written by Brian M. Bolden and has been published by Brian Bolden this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-01 with Fiction categories.
A Tale Of Dos Los Isla De Islandia
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Author : Brian Bolden
language : en
Publisher: Brian Bolden
Release Date : 2021-01-19
A Tale Of Dos Los Isla De Islandia written by Brian Bolden and has been published by Brian Bolden this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Fiction categories.
Iceland S Bell
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Author : Halldor Laxness
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18
Iceland S Bell written by Halldor Laxness and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.
From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king’s hangman. In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as “Iceland’s Sun,” a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king’s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Laxness creates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page. Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland's Ball is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire.
Independent People
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Author : Halldor Laxness
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2009-02-19
Independent People written by Halldor Laxness and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-19 with Fiction categories.
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. • "A strange story, vibrant and alive…. There is a rare beauty in its telling." —Atlantic Monthly If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.
Miss Iceland
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Author : Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
language : en
Publisher: Grove Press
Release Date : 2020-06-16
Miss Iceland written by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir and has been published by Grove Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-16 with Fiction categories.
“Will appeal to readers of Elena Ferrante and Margaret Atwood . . . the unusual setting offers an interesting twist on the portrait of an artist as a young woman.” —Bookpage In 1960s Iceland, Hekla dreams of being a writer. In a nation of poets, where each household proudly displays leatherbound volumes of the Sagas, and there are more writers per capita than anywhere else in the world, there is only one problem: she is a woman. After packing her few belongings, including James Joyces’s Ulysses and a Remington typewriter, Hekla heads for Reykjavik with a manuscript buried in her bags. She moves in with her friend Jon, a gay man who longs to work in the theatre, but can only find dangerous, backbreaking work on fishing trawlers. Hekla’s opportunities are equally limited: marriage and babies, or her job as a waitress, in which harassment from customers is part of the daily grind. The two friends feel completely out of place in a small and conservative world. And yet that world is changing: JFK is shot. Hemlines are rising. In Iceland, another volcano erupts and Hekla meets a poet who brings to light harsh realities about her art—as she realizes she must escape to find freedom abroad, whatever the cost. Miss Iceland, a winner of two international book awards, comes from the acclaimed author of Hotel Silence, which received the Icelandic Literary Prize. “Only a great book can make you feel you’re really there, a thousand miles and a generation away. I loved it.” —Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon “[A] winning tale of friendship and self-fulfillment.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Heaven And Hell
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Author : Jón Kalman Stefánsson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-22
Heaven And Hell written by Jón Kalman Stefánsson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-22 with Fiction categories.
In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barður, 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.
Hans Of Iceland
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Author : Victor Hugo
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896
Hans Of Iceland written by Victor Hugo and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with Capital punishment categories.
World Literature Cosmopolitanism Globality
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Author : Gesine Müller
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-10-21
World Literature Cosmopolitanism Globality written by Gesine Müller and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-21 with Foreign Language Study categories.
From today’s vantage point it can be denied that the confidence in the abilities of globalism, mobility, and cosmopolitanism to illuminate cultural signification processes of our time has been severely shaken. In the face of this crisis, a key concept of this globalizing optimism as World Literature has been for the past twenty years necessarily is in the need of a comprehensive revision. World Literature, Cosmopolitanism, Globality: Beyond, Against, Post, Otherwise offers a wide range of contributions approaching the blind spots of the globally oriented Humanities for phenomena that in one way or another have gone beyond the discourses, aesthetics, and political positions of liberal cosmopolitanism and neoliberal globalization. Departing basically (but not exclusively) from different examples of Latin American literatures and cultures in globalized contexts, this volume provides innovative insights into critical readings of World Literature and its related conceptualizations. A timely book that embraces highly innovative perspectives, it will be a mustread for all scholars involved in the field of the global dimensions of literature.
The Island Of Missing Trees
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Author : Elif Shafak
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-28
The Island Of Missing Trees written by Elif Shafak and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-28 with Fiction categories.
A novel about belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.
The Shadow District
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Author : Arnaldur Indridason
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2017-05-18
The Shadow District written by Arnaldur Indridason and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Fiction categories.
LONGLISTED FOR THE CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER 2018 The first instalment in the thrilling new crime series from worldwide bestseller Arnaldur Indridason THE PAST In wartime Reykjavík, a young woman is found strangled in a dangerous area known as ‘the shadow district’. An Icelandic detective and a member of the American military police are on the trail of a brutal killer. THE PRESENT An elderly man is discovered dead on his bed, smothered with his own pillow. Konrád, a retired detective, finds old newspaper cuttings in the man’s home reporting the shadow district murder. It’s a crime Konrád remembers, having grown up in the same neighbourhood. A MISSING LINK Why, after all this time, would an old crime resurface? How are these events connected across the decades? And will Konrád’s link to the past help him solve the case and finally lay the ghosts of wartime Reykjavík to rest? ‘Arnaldur Indridason introduces a new hero... Beautifully told’ The Times ‘An international literary phenomenon’ Harlan Coben