Magical realism books set in Iceland (1)


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Swanfolk by Kristín Ómarsdóttir EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
Country: Europe / Iceland flag Iceland
Description:
'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell An astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE* In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life. Elisabet likes to take long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality. Pulled into the monomaniacal, and often viole... continue