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Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night | Jón Kalman Stefánsson
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AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER AND WINNER OF THE ICELANDIC LITERATURE PRIZE "The Icelandic Dickens" Irish Examiner "Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, T.L.S. Supplement "A wonderful, exceptional writer . . . A timeless storyteller" CARSTEN JENSEN "Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger" Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination. With humour, with poetry, and with a tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
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charl08
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night | Jón Kalman Stefánsson
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Fallen the forest that one time...

Hallgrímur poetry extract in this novel.

BarbaraBB I love this author 2y
charl08 @BarbaraBB I think I've come across the name before, but that's it. Recommendations gratefully received. 🙠2y
BarbaraBB The Heaven and Hell trilogy is very good. The first book in the series is 2y
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charl08
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night | Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Of course, words in computers tend to disappear, become nothing, become locked up in old programs, be erased when the computer crashes and our thoughts and actions turn to air; in a hundred years, let alone a thousand, no-one will know that we existed.
.... one day we come across old letters and something strange stirs inside us, we sense a thread that reaches from us back into the dimness of the past

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steph_phanie
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night | Jón Kalman Stefánsson
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It wasn't the cheeriest way to close out the year, but it was nevertheless beautiful.

Life in a small village at the edge of the world is not as dull as it would seem. It undulates, just like the sea. And the people who reside there burn bright with dreams, secrets, love, and loss.

â­â­â­Â½ - Better than So-So. I'm feeling generous, so I'll hesitantly call it a Pick. It was quite pensive and at times playful. Might read it again one day.

charl08 Beautiful photo. I am finding this a very odd book, but quite enjoying the oddness. 2y
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steph_phanie
Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night | Jón Kalman Stefánsson
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Very fitting scenery for my final read of 2021!