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CoDex 1962 - A Trilogy by Sjon; Victoria Cribb (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Translator: Victoria Cribb
'This is a work of great ambition ... above all it feels like a work of virtuoso narrative for its own sake; an Icelandic 1001 Nights.' The Sunday TimesJósef Loewe can recall the moment of his birth in August, 1962 and everything that has happened since - or so he claims to the woman listening to the ta ...Show more
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjon
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
"From the Mouth of the Whale "is an Icelandic saga for the modern age. 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 burned.Sjon introduces us to Jonas P ...Show more
From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjon
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the chilling aftermath of Iceland's Lutheran Reformation in 1635, Jonas Palmason - a poet, naturalist and self-taught healer - has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct. Based on the historical figure Jon Gudmundsson, From the Mouth of the Whale is a magical evocation of an enlightened mind ...Show more
Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was by Sjon; Victoria Cribb (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sj n's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sj n's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what s ...Show more
The Dark Blue Winter Overcoat: and other stories from the North by Sjon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan Stockholm to the remote Faroe Islands, and from Denmark to Greenland, this unique and compelling volume displays the thrilling diversity of writing from these northern nations.Sel ...Show more
The Whispering Muse by Sjon
$17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilisation, has had the singular good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, di ...Show more
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