Books by Sjon (6)


1.

El chico que nunca existió by Sjon ES

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
Este es un libro lleno de sorpresas, por lo cual cualquier adelanto es un spoiler. La historia se desarrolla en capítulos breves, cada uno una postal, y escrito con tal belleza y poesía, que hasta hechos que podrían ser sórdidos y atroces, son mirados a través de una niebla que atenúa sus aristas. un libro muy bello. Sjón es un artista en muchos campos, y es conocido por escribir las canciones para su compatriota Bjork. Un gusto haber leído este libro.

2.

El zorro ártico : by Sjón ES

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
El zorro ártico, novela ganadora del prestigioso Premio de Literatura del Consejo Nórdico en 2005, es la obra más importante de la literatura islandesa actual. Sjón nos presenta la lucha del pastor Baldur Skuggason con un zorro al que quiere cazar.

3.

Moonstone : The Boy Who Never Was: A Novel by Sjón EN

Rating: 4 (2 votes)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
Reykjavik, 1918. The eruptions of the Katla volcano darken the sky night and day. Yet despite the natural disaster, the shortage of coal and the Great War still raging in the outside world, life in the small capital goes on as always. Sixteen-year-old Mani Steinn lives for the movies. Awake, he lives on the fringes of society. Asleep, he dreams in pictures, the threads of his own life weaving through the tapestry of the films he loves. When the Spanish flu epidemic comes ashore, killing hundreds of townspeople and forcing thousands to their sick beds, the shadows that linger at the edges of ex... continue

4.

Red Milk by Sjon EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023 'A book like a blade of light, searching out and illuminating the darkest corners of history . . . It's vivid, unputdownable, alive, and written with unerring artfulness and subtlety.' Neel Mukherjee Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavík during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring brother and son, at nineteen he seems set to lead a conventional life. Yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party with ties to a burgeoning international network of neo-Nazis - a cause tha... continue


6.

The Blue Fox : A Novel by Sjón EN

Rating: 3 (3 votes)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter landscape, the mysterious blue fox is an elusive, enigmatic target for hunters like Baldur, a 19th-century priest who has profound influence over his rural community and is now seeking to extend his dominion.