Summer light, and then comes the night
(2021, original release: 2020)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/JON KALMAN STEFANSSON
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2021
©2020
©2020
EDITION
First HarperVia edition
DESCRIPTION
249 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063136472, 0063136473 :, 0063136473, 9780063136472
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published as Sumarljós, og svo kemur nóttin in Iceland in 2006 by Bjartur"--Copyright page
"Sometimes, in small places, life becomes bigger. Sometimes a distance from the world's tumult opens our hearts and our dreams. In a village of four hundred souls, the infinite light of an Icelandic summer makes its inhabitants want to explore, and the eternal night of winter lights up the magic of the stars. The village becomes a microcosm of the age-old conflict between human desire and destiny, between the limits of reality and the wings of the imagination. With humor, poetry, and a tenderness for human weaknesses, Stefánsson explores the question of why we live at all"--