- EAN13
- 9781529418804
- Éditeur
- Maclehose Press
- Date de publication
- 14/03/2024
- Langue
- anglais
- Fiches UNIMARC
- S'identifier
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Aide EAN13 : 9781529418804
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"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson's book, nor the
uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods
"Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN
BATTERSBY, TLS
"A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefánsson is a writer of great
scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Stefánsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour" BOYD TONKIN,
Spectator
A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural
community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists.
A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's
there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her
sister, he realises he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well:
he doesn't recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged
into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords
by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer's wife whose essay on the humble
earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastor who writes to dead poets and
falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who
discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the
night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made
and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of following
the magnetic needle of the heart.
An incandescent, audacious novel about the misfortune of mortality and the
strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of
death, desire and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.
Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods
"Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN
BATTERSBY, TLS
"A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefánsson is a writer of great
scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
"Stefánsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour" BOYD TONKIN,
Spectator
A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural
community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists.
A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's
there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her
sister, he realises he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well:
he doesn't recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged
into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords
by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer's wife whose essay on the humble
earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastor who writes to dead poets and
falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who
discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the
night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made
and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of following
the magnetic needle of the heart.
An incandescent, audacious novel about the misfortune of mortality and the
strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of
death, desire and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.
Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
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