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Catergories: Book
Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter’s territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sjón’s slender, spellbinding fable of a novel,...
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One day, a grandmother shouts, "LEAVE ME ALONE!" and leaves her tiny home and her very big family to journey to the moon and beyond to find peace and quiet to finish her knitting. Along the way, she encounters ravenous bears, obnoxious goats, and even hordes of aliens! But nothing stops grandma from accomplishing her goal─knitting sweaters for her many...
Catergories: Interviews
The HK Literary festival is in full swing and as you know their big focus this year is on Scandinavian writers. Now Iceland is one Scandinavian country that is famous for its artists and musicians...and of course its amazing novelists. Our contributor, Reenita Hora got to talk with Sjon who has just flown in from Reykjavik to talk about the influence of myth and...
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Claudio’s apartment faces a wall. Rising from bed, he sets his feet on the floor at the same time, to ground himself. Cecilia sits at her window, contemplating a cemetery, the radio her best companion. In parallel and entwining stories that move from Havana to Paris to New York City, no routine, no argument for the pleasures of solitude, can withstand our most...
Catergories: Book
Once upon a time in a very busy city, on a very busy street, in two very small apartments, lived...
Herman and Rosie.
Herman liked playing the oboe, the smell of hot dogs in the winter, and watching films about the ocean.
Rosie liked pancakes, listening to old jazz records, and watching films about the ocean.
They both loved the groovy rhythm of the city,...
Catergories: Book
Shade is a young silverwing bat, the runt of his colony. But he's determined to prove himself on the long, dangerous winter migration to Hibernaculum, millions of wingbeats to the south. During a fierce storm, he loses the others and soon faces the most incredible journey of his young life. Desperately searching for a way to rejoin his flock, Shade meets a remarkable...
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