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Sjón’s short The Blue Fox or Birgisson’s reply to Helga offer entry points without a multi-volume commitment. Laxness provides broader views of farming and Iceland’s historical dependency, and Stefánsson follows a fishing community. Ólafsdóttir sends characters on journeys that change their relationships with others. Magnason and Ísberg turn towards future social experiments, while Helgason follows a turbulent life spanning the twentieth century.
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Bjartur tries to preserve his farm and independence at the expense of his family relationships.
Original title: Sjálfstætt fólk
Czytelnik · 1956
Translated by Maria Skibniewska
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A friend’s death transforms the life of a young member of a fishing expedition.
Original title: Himnaríki og helvíti
A multi-stranded novel moves between Iceland and Denmark around the turn of the eighteenth century.
Original title: Íslandsklukkan
A fox hunt intertwines with a naturalist’s and a young woman’s stories in nineteenth-century Iceland.
Original title: Skugga-Baldur
A corporation controlling love and communication confronts its characters with a commercialised future.
An elderly farmer answers a former lover, revisiting the choices that separated their lives.
Original title: Svar við bréfi Helgu
A woman recovering from a breakup travels Iceland’s ring road with a young deaf boy.
Original title: Rigning í nóvember
A man contemplating suicide travels to a country after war and begins repairing a damaged hotel.
Original title: Ör
A proposed mandatory empathy test divides Icelandic society into the privileged and the suspect.
Original title: Merking
An elderly woman living in a garage recounts a life crossing the turbulence of the twentieth century.
Original title: Konan við 1000°
A young film enthusiast seeks his place in Reykjavík during the influenza epidemic of 1918.
A trilogy intertwines a refugee’s story, a child made of clay and contemporary biotechnology.
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