Swanfolk

Swanfolk
Kristin Omarsdottir, Vala Thorodds
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Hardback
h222 x 138mm - 230pg
7 Jul 2022 UK
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9781787303294
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An astonishing dystopian novel about a woman' s discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland' s greatest writers. An astonishing dystopian novel about a woman' s discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland' s greatest writers. In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elisabet' s work is the lynchpin of her existence in the city; her friends and social life centre around the Special Unit. But recently Elisabet has found herself taking long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality. Elisabet' s walks turn into regular visits to these swan women, who reveal to her the enigma of their secret existence, and their deepest desires. Pulled further and further into the monomaniacal, and often violent, quest of the swanfolk she finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Ultimately, Elisabet is forced to reckon with both the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings and a past life she has been trying to evade. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN' S FICTION PRIZE*PRAISE FOR KRISTIN OMARSDOTTIR-' marsdottir' s skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi, New York Review of Books
Kristin Omarsdottir is one the most original authors in contemporary Icelandic literature. Her texts are translucent and her language revelatory. She is known for subverting traditional binaries like fantasy and realism, feminine and masculine, good and evil, and the animal and the human. -- Jorunn Sigurdardottir * Ord um baekur * One of [this country' s] most respected authors. -- Egill Helgason * Kiljan * A master of the unexpected. -- Steingerdur Steinsdottir * Vikan * Kristin is a singular author. . . she is in a league of her own. -- Fridrika Benonysdottir * Kiljan * Kristin does everything at once - enchants, terrifies, devastates and delights. -- Ulfhildur Dagsdottir * Bokmenntavefurinn * She approaches taboos with complete irreverence, as if they don' t hinder her at all. It' s as if she stops and lingers in places where others had never thought to stop before. Kristin has plumbed the possibilities of the language and what it is possible to talk about and write about. -- Andri Snaer Magnason, author of LoveStar With enchanting style and perfect conviction Kristin leads the reader into a dreamworld that is so lifelike that we don' t know whether we are in a bad dream or a terrifying nightmare; here is a dystopia that appears distant from our reality at the same time as it mirrors it in a chilling way. -- Gauti Kristmannsson * Vidsja * A many-layered novel that immediately grips the reader and stays with him long after the book is finished. At once disquieting and mischievous in its descriptions of the interactions between a bureaucrat living in a surveillance state and the half-human beings who live on the periphery. The story makes us think about what it is to be human and the borders that people invent to distinguish themselves from others and to trap themselves. * The Icelandic Women' s Literature Prize * An examination of humanity and of language - man' s most distinctive feature - and how it serves us in defining ourselves and the world around us. -- Marianna Clara Luthersdottir * Bokmenntavefurinn *
Kristin marsd ttir (Author) Kristin marsd ttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women' s Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019. Vala Thorodds (Translator) Vala Thorodds (Valger ur roddsd ttir) is founding director of the UK- and Iceland-basedliterary press Partus and co-editor of the poetry journal Pain. She has been nominated to thePEN International New Voices Award and her poetry and translations have appeared in TheWhite Review, New Poetries VII (Carcanet, 2018), Guardian, Granta, PN Review, and ThePenguin Book of the Prose Poem (Penguin Classics, 2018).
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781787303294
Published: 7 Jul 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Harvill Secker
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Hardback
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 230

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