Kalmann

Kalmann
Joachim Schmidt
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 336pg
19 May 2022 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781913394684
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This atmospheric crime thriller laced with humour is set in the village of Raufarhoefn in the far north of Iceland. Kalmann Odinsson is the self-appointed Sheriff of his town. He is 34, neurodiverse and hunts Arctic foxes and catches gigantic Greenland sharks for a living. He was brought up by his grandfather who taught him how to hunt and fish and ' nearly everything else a man needs to know about life' . One of his many dreams is to find a wife. But he must first extricate himself from the mess he gets into when he discovers a frozen pool of human blood in the winter snow. When it becomes apparent that local bigwig Robert McKenzie has just gone missing, the hunt is on to find McKenzie' s body and his murderer.
"Schmidt' s novels show a sensitivity to how the accumulation of seemingly small events makes up the drama of human life. In his recent works, he has built literary bridges between his birth country Switzerland, and Iceland, the country he lives in. In them, as elsewhere, he proves that it is by telling our shared histories and sharing our individual stories that we overcome being strangers and instead meet eye to eye as citizens of a single world. " Sjo n
Joachim B. Schmidt, born in Grisons, Switzerland in 1981, is a journalist and the author of novels and numerous short stories. He emigrated to Iceland in 2007, where he lives with his family in Reykjavi k and also works as a tour guide. "Kalmann" is his first novel to be translated into English.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781913394684
Published: 19 May 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bitter Lemon Press
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Pages: 336

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