Island

Island
Caroline Waight, Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 176pg
2 Jun 2020 UK
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9781782275800
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Death brings the young woman back to the Faroes, the windswept rocky islands of the north where she has never lived but which she has always called home. There she finds her stories entwining with those of her ancestors as she searches for a way to connect with Faroese culture. But is "home" just a place name, or something more?Island is a literary tale of exile and homecoming, split across three generations of a Faroe islands family, strongly inspired by the author's own family history. It is a beautiful story of emigration and immigration, and of what it means to belong.
'If somebody asked me what is the strength of this novel, I would reply without a moment of hesitation: the tone. The atmosphere. And then I would immediately add: the style. The sentences which seep through the soul and never leave. Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen captures what is vague and incomprehensible, breathes through the words, the characters, and the generations. And she also captures what is most beautiful and painful: the regret in time' Jon Kalman Stefansson, author of Heaven and Hell
'Island talks about places as if they were people, of fjords as if they were the wrinkles of our souls' Valeria Parrella, Grazia
'An ode to the legends we still need' La Repubblica
'Dense and evocative, and manages to combine organic and lifeless matter with the fantastic' Wired.it
Siri Ranva Hjelm Jacobsen was born in 1980, into the third generation of a Faroese family living in Copenhagen. She works as a literary reviewer for a number of Danish publications. Island is her acclaimed debut novel, and has been translated into four languages.
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ISBN-13: 9781782275800
Published: 2 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pushkin Press
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 176

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