Entre Ciel ET Terre by Jon Hallur Stefansson
Jon Kalman Stefansson is the winner of the Icelandic Prize for Literature and has been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature. 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. Der Spiegel said it was like an oyster--a glinting treasure in a rough shell.In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Barour join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Barour, absorbed in Paradise Lost, succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Distraught from the murky circumstances of Barour's death, the boy leaves the village, intending to return the book to its original 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.
Jon Kalman Stefansson, novelist and poet, was born in Reykjavik in 1963. His novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature (2001, 2004, 2007) and his novel, Summer Light and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 Stefansson won the P.O. Enquist Award. Philip Roughton is translator of, among others, the works of Halldor Laxness and The Islander, a biography of Laxness by Halldor Gudmundsson.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782070440511 |
| ISBN 10 | 2070440516 |
| Title | Entre Ciel ET Terre |
| Author | Jon Hallur Stefansson |
| Series | Folio Ser |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallimard |
| Year published | 2011-03-03 |
| Number of pages | 0 |
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