LEADER 03690nam 2200469 450 001 9910792712503321 005 20230125212521.0 010 $a1-4529-5590-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000001177819 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4845307 035 $a(OCoLC)984127712 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse60726 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001177819 100 $a20170511h20172017 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aOut of the blue $enew short fiction from Iceland /$fHelen Mitsios, editor ; foreword by Sigurjon Birgir Sigurasson 210 1$aMinneapolis, Minnesota ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Minnesota Press,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (202 pages) 300 $aTranslated from Icelandic. 311 $a1-5179-0253-3 330 $aThis extraordinary collection, the first anthology of Icelandic short fiction published in English translation, features work by twenty of Iceland's most popular and celebrated living authors--including Andri Snęr Magnason, Jo?n Kalman Stefa?nsson, Kristi?n O?marsdo?ttir, and Aušur Jo?nsdo?ttir--granddaughter of Halldo?r Laxness, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. Celebrated in Europe and Scandinavia but less known in the English-speaking world, these writers traverse realms of darkness and light that will be familiar to readers who have fallen under the spell of Scandinavian fiction. While uniquely Icelandic in topography and tenor, with a touch of the island's supernatural charm, the stories traffic in the enduring and universal complexities of human nature. Here is a fictional universe where the ghosts of Vikings and spirits tread, volcanoes grumble underfoot, and writers trip the Northern Lights fantastic across the landscape of the Icelandic imagination. At long last, readers can enjoy award-winning stories now expertly rendered into English by the country's most renowned translators. In "Killer Whale" a father contemplates euthanasia for a terminally ill child, in "Self Portrait" a vacationing family in Spain crosses paths with migrants, in "Escape for Men" a woman searches for an ex-lover in the South of France, and in "The Most Precious Secret" the nature of artists and the art world is mercilessly revealed. Both the Viking myths of Iceland's forefathers and the cutting-edge modern world of the country today are brilliantly alive in these remarkable and original stories. This collection is an excursion to an island where almost two million travelers descend yearly on a population of 345 thousand natives. Iceland is the place Bjo?rk calls home, the location where Game of Thrones was filmed--a place with open lava fields, glaciers, and iceberg lagoons among other natural wonders that is becoming one of the "hottest" tourist destinations on earth. Out of the Blue transports readers to Iceland's timeless and magical island of Vikings and geographical wonders, and it promises to be a seminal collection that will define Icelandic literature in translation for decades to come. 606 $aIcelandic fiction$y21st century$vTranslations into English 606 $aShort stories, Icelandic$vTranslations into English 607 $aIceland$xSocial life and customs$vFiction 607 $aIceland$vFiction 615 0$aIcelandic fiction 615 0$aShort stories, Icelandic 676 $a839/.6935 702 $aMitsios$b Helen 702 $aSjo?n$f1962- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792712503321 996 $aOut of the blue$93760232 997 $aUNINA