Лучшие книги Йона Калмана Стефанссона

Поэтичный и полный неожиданных поворотов сюжета, по-доброму смешной роман Cтефанссона — это взгляд на повседневную жизнь обычных людей, таких же, как мы с вами. Автор раскрывает волшебство жизни в самых разных ее проявлениях — от красоты до юродства, от обожания до предательства, от дружбы до одиночества, от сжигающей страсти до полного равнодушия. Байки и сплетни о жителях исландской деревни подобны миллиону таких же историй и в то же время передают уникальность каждого персонажа, не всегда идеального, но, несомненно, достойного любви.

In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Bár∂ur join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea and Bár∂ur who has forgotten his waterproof as he was too absorbed in Paradise Lost, succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Appalled by the death and by the fishermen's callous ability to set about gutting the fatal catch, the boy leaves the village, intending to return the book to its owner. The extreme hardship and danger of the journey is of little consequence to him he has already resolved to join his friend in death. But once in the town he immerses himself in the stories and lives of its inhabitants, and decides that he cannot be with his friend just yet. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, Heaven and Hell is a perfectly formed, vivid and timeless story, lyrical in style, and as intense a reading experience as the forces of the Icelandic landscape themselves. An outstandingly moving novel.

The Sorrow of Angels is the second novel in an epic and elemental trilogy by the winner of the Icelandic Prize for Literature Jón Kalman Stefánsson, and the follow up to Heaven and Hell. The Sorrow of Angels continues to follow "the boy" who, after suffering a terrible loss at sea, stops at a small Icelandic village that will become his adopted home and his redemption. The book is a part of a trilogy, but as Susan Swarbrick wrote in The Herald Scotland, "If you haven't read Heaven And Hell, the first in Reykjavik-born author Jon Kalman Stefansson's captivating trilogy, that needn't be a deterrent from falling head over heels in love with The Sorrow Of Angels."

It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain-the poetry Bár?ur died for. Three weeks, but already Bár?ur's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together.

As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail.

The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless and powerful story that evokes the struggle of man against the ferocious majesty of nature. Asked by The Independent what inspired him to write these three novels, Stefánsson named his first visit to the landscape of Iceland's West Fjords. "It was like a punch in the solar plexus . . . The mountains seemed to be saying, 'Why aren't you writing about us?" (Independent, 2013).

„Erzahl meine Geschichte, und ich bekomme meinen Namen zuruck.“ Ein Mann erwacht in einer Kirche, irgendwo tief in den Westfjorden Islands, und erinnert sich an nichts. Doch die Frau, der er auf dem Friedhof begegnet, erkennt ihn wieder. Runa berichtet von ihrer verstorbenen Mutter, und sie schickt ihn zu ihrer Schwester Soley, mit der ihn eine bruchige Nahe zu verbinden scheint. Mithilfe ihrer und anderer Erzahlungen setzt er sein Leben neu zusammen – bis sich nicht nur sein, sondern das Schicksal aller Menschen dieses einsamen Fjords vor uns erhebt. Ein raunendes, gewaltiges Meisterwerk, das die Kraft der Literatur feiert!

A modern saga spanning the whole of the 20th century, by one of Iceland's most celebrated writers.
At the beginning of this story there is death, and yet it is a celebration of life - the passion between a man and a woman, forbidden love, violence, sorrow, betrayal. Happiness and misfortune are passed down from one generation to the next. The sorrow over what was and what might have been weighs heavily on the characters and at the end of this chain, for now, stands Ari, on his way to his dying father, with a score still to be settled.
The raw beauty of life is written into the dramatic Icelandic landscape, and into a society that has undergone great transformation within a century. In language both archaic and lyrical, and yet entirely contemporary and full of humour, Jon Kalman Stefansson proves himself one of the finest European writers of his generation.

Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influence shaped Icelandic culture from the '50s to the dawning of the new millennium.

Ari - a writer and publisher - lands back in Keflavik from Copenhagen. His father is dying, and he is flooded by memories of his youth in the '70s and '80s, listening to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, raiding American supply lorries and discovering girls. And one girl he could never forget. Layered through Ari's story is that of his grandparents in a village on the eastern coast, a world away from modern Keflavik. For his grandfather Oddur, life at sea is a destiny; for Margret its elemental power brings only loneliness and fear.

Fish Have No Feet is a novel of profound beauty and wisdom by a major international writer. By the author of the acclaimed trilogy Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels and The Heart of Man.

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy (once again) has the sense of being brought back from the grave. But this is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame haired Alfheidhur, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheidur, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village, to which he must now inexorably return. Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north of Iceland, The…

Gerade hat der kleine Junge seine Mutter verloren, da nimmt eine fremde Frau ihren Platz ein, die Stiefmutter. Während sich sein Vater in seine Arbeit auf der Baustelle stürzt, flieht der Junge mit seinen Zinnsoldaten in eine märchenhafte Parallelwelt. Geborgenheit findet er nur bei seiner Großmutter, die ihm abenteuerlich-bunte Anekdoten von ihren eigenen Eltern erzählt und ihn so aus der einsamen Düsterkeit seines Alltags befreit.