Books by Sjón (6)
1.
El chico que nunca existió by Sjon ES
IcelandDescription:
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.
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
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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
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Gunnar Kampen grows up in Iceland during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. At nineteen he seems set for a conventional, dutiful life. And yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party, a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.
Inspired by one of the ringleaders of a little-known neo-Nazi group that was formed in Iceland in the 1950s, Sjon's portrait of an ardent fascist is as thought-provoking as it is disturbing. As this taut and fascinating novel suggests, the se... continue
6.
The Blue Fox : A Novel by Sjón EN
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An elusive fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest, while a naturalist endeavors to build a life for a young woman with Down syndrome whom he rescued from a shipwreck years earlier.