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  • Land of Love and Ruins

    by Oddný Eir, Philip Roughton ...
    Winner of the EU Prize for Literature“Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher, and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now.… A true pioneer!!!!!!!!” —Björk“Part diary, part philosophy (think Pascal and Montaigne), always keen and true and delightfully smart, this is a book that I related to deeply and loved consuming ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Heaven and Hell

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 1 - The Trilogy About the Boy
    “There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that’s what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you—something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters’ names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s ‘Trilogy About the Boy’.” ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Advent

    The Wintery Icelandic Christmas Classic

    by Gunnar Gunnarsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    'As we come nearer to Christmas this wondrous book becomes ever more poignant and magical. Once read never forgotten' Michael MorpurgoEvery winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards.With his dog and his ram by his side, traversing wild snowstorms and crystalline nights, fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Sorrow of Angels

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 2 - The Trilogy About the Boy
    “There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that’s what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you—something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters’ names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s ‘Trilogy About the Boy’.” ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Heart of Man

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 3 - The Trilogy About the Boy
    “There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that’s what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you—something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters’ names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s ‘Trilogy About the Boy’.” ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • A Parish Chronicle

    by Halldór Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    From Iceland’s Nobel laureate, an essayistic tale of the unlikely miracles that return a church—fated to disappear over & again throughout time—to the same hillsideIn the still of morning, Ólafur sharpens his scythe on the bone-dry pavestones that separate his farmhouse from the rest of Mosfell Valley, where life revolves around sheep. The sound of his hammer rings out like a high-pitched bell ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Land of Love and Ruins

    by Oddný Eir ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    “Oddný Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer!!!!!!!!” —BjörkThe winner of the EU Prize for Literature, Land of Love and Ruins introduces a daring new voice in international fiction: Oddný Eir. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Your Absence Is Darkness

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series Book 45 - Biblioasis International Translation Series
    Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists.A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he’s th... ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Salka Valka

    by Halldor Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    **"This is a remarkable achievement and will hopefully lead to a revival of interest in an oft-overlooked literary genius." – Publishers Weekly, starred reviewA fresh translation of Nobel Prize–winning author Halldór Laxness's modernist masterpiece, Salka Valka.**A feminist coming of age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Great Weaver From Kashmir

    by Halldor Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    From Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness“Laxness brought the Icelandic novel out from the ‘sagas' shadow…to read Laxness is also to understand why he haunts Iceland—he writes the unearthly prose of a poet cased in the perfection of a shell of plot, wit, and clarity.” — The Guardian“Finally, finally, an imposing work of fiction, which rises like a cliff from the flatness of Icelandic poetry and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Iceland's Bell

    by Halldor Laxness ...
    Translated by Philip Roughton ...
    Series series Vintage International
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Fish Have No Feet

    by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ...
    Narrated by Saul Reichlin ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    Keflavik: a town that has been called the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished. Its livelihood depends entirely on a U.S. military base, a conduit for American influences that shaped Icelandic culture and ethics from the 1950s to the dawning of the new millennium.It is to Keflavik that Ari - a writer and publisher - returns from ... Read more

    $24.99 USD