Brushstrokes of Blue: The Young Poets of Iceland

Biographies & Memoirs

Bjartmarsson, Sigfus

Arts & Literature

Mare's Nest Pub

<p>Now available in English, this Nordic Prize winner for 1988 is a story of incest and infanticide set in the remote hinterlands of 19th-century Iceland. ""Vilhjálmsson's hallucinatory imagination creates an eerily beautiful vision of things, Icelandic in far-seeing clarity, precision, strangeness. Unique and unforgettable."" - Ted Hughes. Based on a true story, Justice Undone is a compelling novel of obsession and aversion. An idealistic young magistrate (a figure inspired by the Whitmanesque Icelandic writer Einar Benediktsson) undertakes his first case. His geographical and emotional journey into bleak, unknown territory, where dream mingles sensuously with the world of the Sagas, tests him to the limit. ""A complex, poetic, psychological novel that becomes more rewarding as the reader progresses through it."" Booklist</p>

Justice Undone (Shad Thames Books)

Literature & Fiction

Vilhjálmsson, Thor

Genre Fiction

The Swan

Bergsson, Gudbergur

Contemporary

Combining adventure with Scandinavian political and literary history, Eldjrn's gripping saga of 17th-century Iceland consists mostly of the fictional memoirs of its real-life hero, Gudmundur Andrésson."" Publishers Weekly In 1649, Andrésson is sitting apparently forgotten in Copenhagen's notorious Blue Tower, where he has been imprisoned for writing a pamphlet attacking the Great Edict, the morality law set by the Danish colonial authorities in Iceland. Interspersed with descriptions of his suffering and despair in the cell, he narrates the story of an extraordinary life. A bright but poor farmer's son, he was sponsored by a kindly scholar, but prefers a life with connections and a rich wife. The birth of a child out of wedlock, counter to the Great Edict, and his scurrilous tract seal his fate. ""A lively chronicle of impish, often sardonic resistance to tyranny in all forms."" Kirkus Reviews

The Blue Tower

Comics & Graphic Novels

Eldjárn, Þórarinn

Orarinn Eldjarn

Graphic Novels

Potter's Field

Gunnarsson, Olafur

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