Eva Baltasar: Boulder (Boulder)
The latest addition to my website is Eva Baltasar's Boulder (Boulder). Our narrator works as a mess-hall cook in various places in Chile, getting a job on a freighter early…
The latest addition to my website is Eva Baltasar's Boulder (Boulder). Our narrator works as a mess-hall cook in various places in Chile, getting a job on a freighter early…
I have now read twenty Icelandic novels in a row, which may seem and, indeed, probably is mildly obsessive. However, I shall now be calling a break and returning to…
The latest addition to my website is Ólafur Jóhann Sigurðsson's Bréf séra Böðvars (Pastor Bodvar's Letter). This is a short tale about a retired pastor, Bodvar V Gunnlaugsson, living with…
The latest addition to my website is Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Olaf Olafsson)'s Höll minninganna (Walking into the Night). The main interest in this novel is that much of it is…
The latest addition to my website is Kristín Ómarsdóttir's Hér (Children in Reindeer Woods). (The Icelandic title means simply Here.) It is set in an unnamed country which appears to…
The latest addition to my website is Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson (Olaf Olafsson)'s Slóð Fiðrildanna (The Journey Home). This is a fairly gentle tale of Disa, an Icelandic woman, who has…
The latest addition to my website is Sjón's Argóarflísin (The Whispering Muse). This is another first-class novel by Sjón. It tells the story of a man called Valdimar Haraldsson, a…
The latest addition to my website is Þórarinn Eldjárn's Brotahöfuð (The Blue Tower). This is a fairly conventional historical novel about a sixteenth century historical figure called Guðmundur Andrésson, who…
The latest addition to my website is Sjón's Skugga-Baldur (The Blue Fox). This is a short tale but a very effective one, telling two seemingly separate stories but which are,…
The latest addition to my website is Svava Jakobsdóttir's Gunnladar saga (Gunnlöth's Tale). This is another excellent and original novel from Jakobsdóttir. It tells the story of a mother going…