Sjón
1) CoDex 1962
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Sjón's epic three-part masterpiece, weaving together ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths, CoDex 1962 encompasses genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, Fortean studies, genetics, and the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling" --
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jona Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast, the...
3) The Northman
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Follows a young Viking prince on his quest to avenge his father's murder.
4) The blue fox
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
"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, none of their lives will be the same"--Page 4 of cover.
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