{"title":"Jón Kalman Stefánsson","description":"Jón Kalman Stefánsson's novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. His books include Heaven and Hell; The Sorrow of Angels, longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize; The Heart of Man, winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize; Fish Have No Feet, which was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize. He lives in Reykjavík, Iceland.Philip Roughton was born in the US in 1965 and now lives in Iceland. He is a scholar of Old Norse and mediaeval literature and an award-winning translator of modern Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous Icelandic writers, including the Nobel prize-winning author Halldór Laxness.","products":[{"product_id":"the-sorrow-of-angels-paperback","title":"The Sorrow of Angels - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe second installment in Stefánsson's Trilogy About the Boy is a timeless story that portrays the human struggle for hope within the ferocious majesty of Iceland. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's been three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain--the poetry Bárður died for. Just three weeks, but already Bárður's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords, Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second installment in Stefánsson's elemental Trilogy About the Boy, \u003cem\u003eThe Sorrow of Angels \u003c\/em\u003eis a timeless literary masterpiece that evokes the human struggle within the ferocious majesty of nature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102499311839,"sku":"9781771966801","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/1LQ4RGCGli9781771966801.webp?v=1781083371"},{"product_id":"your-absence-is-darkness-paperback","title":"Your Absence Is Darkness - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he's there or how he arrived, with a stranger staring mockingly from a few pews back. Startled by the man's cryptic questions, he leaves--and plunges into a history spanning centuries, a past pressed into his genes that sinks him closer to some knowledge of himself. A city girl is drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze, and a generation earlier, a farmer's wife writes an essay about earthworms that changes the course of lives. A pastor who writes letters to dead poets falls in love with a faraway stranger, and a rock musician, plagued by cosmic loneliness, discovers that his past has been a lie. Faced with the violence of fate and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between them, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIncandescent and elemental, hope-filled and humane, \u003cem\u003eYour Absence Is Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e is a comedy about mortality, music, and the strange salve of time, and a spellbinding saga of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104824299743,"sku":"9781771965811","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/M9XE6xkgdb9781771965811.webp?v=1781111394"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/jon-kalman-stefansson.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}