{"product_id":"your-absence-is-darkness-j-n-kalman-stef-nsson-paperback","title":"Your Absence Is Darkness -- Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Paperback","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J Kalman Stef疣sson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/05\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771965811\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/29\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ Kalman Stef疣sson\u003c\/b\u003e's novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature, and his novel \u003cem\u003eSummer Light, and Then Comes the Night\u003c\/em\u003e received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P. O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: \u003cem\u003eHeaven and Hell\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sorrow of Angels\u003c\/em\u003e (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and \u003cem\u003eThe Heart of Man\u003c\/em\u003e (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize). A subsequent novel, \u003cem\u003e Fish Have No Feet\u003c\/em\u003e, was longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2017.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhilip Roughton\u003c\/b\u003e is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous writers including Halld Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of J Kalman Stef疣sson's \u003cem\u003eThe Heart of Man\u003c\/em\u003e, and shortlisted for the same prize for \u003cem\u003eAbout the Size of the Universe\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jón Kalman Stefánsson","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45692121022692,"sku":"9781771965811","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9781771965811.jpg?v=1728233735","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/your-absence-is-darkness-j-n-kalman-stef-nsson-paperback","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}