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Stone Tree by Gyrðir Elíasson6/7/2023 ![]() ![]() His collection, The Yellow House, was awarded the Icelandic Literature Prize and the Halldor Laxnes Prize for Literature in 2000.Ģ007 2008 2009 2009/01 2009/02 2009/03 2009/04 2009/06 2009/07 2009/08 2009/09 2009/10 2009/11 2010/01 2010/02 2010/03 crime fiction dansk english translation finlandssvenska klassisk mediaeval norsk nynorsk poetry svenska theatre traduction française à suivre íslenska Tags alain gnaedig alex fouillet anders knutas anna gibson anne b. Gyrðir Elíasson is a writer and a translator. Plotting a constellation of singular, glittering images that are rendered nonetheless complete, this magnificent compilation intersects the paths of its characters, who are at once isolated in their individual pursuits and yet connected in the vast realm of dreams. Despite the desolation of their surroundings, the characters encounter strange company: ghostly presences in the early hours, enviable neighbors, and fellow writers with remarkably similar ambitions. A Boston ornithologist speeds through the landscape in a four-by-four chasing Arctic Terns a schoolboy is relocated to the northernmost town of Siglufjördur to compete in a chess tournament and a husband packs his wife off to visit her aunt in Sweden. ![]() ![]() ![]() Along the lonely western shores of Iceland, among its vast mountain ranges and its barren lava fields, this sublime collection of short stories blends the desires and efforts of its numerous protagonists, nearly all intent on taking leave of their normal lives in order to pursue their dreams more seriously. ![]()
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