Sjon

• May-2013
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Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter landscape, the mysterious blue fox is an elusive, enigmatic target for hunters like Baldur Skuggason, a nineteenth-century priest who has profound influence over his rural community and is now se...

• May-2013
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The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught hea...

• May-2013
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The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the...

• Aug-2016
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The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjón's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjón's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a socie...

• Oct-2017
• / General Fiction
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The best fiction from across the Nordic region, selected and introduced by Sjon - Iceland's internationally renowned writer.This exquisite anthology collects together the very best fiction from across the Nordic region. Travelling from cosmopolitan S...

• Sep-2018
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Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962 -- twenty years in the making -- is Sjón’s epic three-part masterpieceOver the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjón has earned a global reputation as one of the...

• Jan-2022
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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023A timely and provocative novel about a mysterious Icelandic neo-Nazi and the enduring global allure of fascism.In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenham Spa. In...