The Heart of Man - Stefánsson, Jón Kalman
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The final installment of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Trilogy of the Boy is a profound exploration of life, love and desire written with a sublime simplicity. After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, the postman Jens and the boy are far from home in a fishing community at the edge of the world. It is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame haired Alfheidhur, who makes the boy wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheidur, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village, to which he…mehr

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The final installment of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's Trilogy of the Boy is a profound exploration of life, love and desire written with a sublime simplicity. After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, the postman Jens and the boy are far from home in a fishing community at the edge of the world. It is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame haired Alfheidhur, who makes the boy wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheidur, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village, to which he must now return. Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north of Iceland, The Heart of Man, the final book in Jón Kalman Stefánsson's audacious Trilogy of the Boy, is a profound exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime simplicity.
Autorenporträt
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. His books include Heaven and Hell; The Sorrow of Angels, longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; The Heart of Man, winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize; and Fish Have No Feet, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Reykjavík, Iceland. 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 Halldór Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's The Heart of Man, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.