Andri Snær Magnason

The book that will make you understand what our future holds for us, if we don't act immediately.

On Time and Water

جلس الأطفال جامِدِين. كان كل شيء بالخارج ساكنًا؛ لا يوجد أحد في المدينة ولا ضوءَ سوى الوَهَج الأزرق الباهت المنبعث من المنازل الصامتة. شاهدوا مقاطع ڤيديو من جميع أنحاء العالم. الأمر نفسه في كل مكانٍ: بيوت شبحية، طُرُقٌ شَبحيَّة، ومُدُن شَبحيَّة. كُلّ شيء مهجور وخالٍ، لكن العالم لم يكن ميِّتًا، كان أخضر ووارِفًا، تكسوالغاباتُ أَرصِفَتَه وأَسمَنْتَه. كان بالتأكيد تحت تأثير تعويذة. يقرر الجميع الهروب من التاريخ وذلك عبر حبس أنفسهم في توابيت الزمن والإنتظار حتى تنتهي الأزمة العالمية من تلقاء نفسها. ينفتح تابوت سيجرين لتجد نفسها مع بعض الأطفال الذين انفتحت تاوابيتهم في عالم بري مختلف، بلا بشر تسكنه الحيوانات وتنبت فيه الأشجار في وسط البيوت. فكيف سيتصرف الأطفال؟ وما علاقة كل ذلك بلعنة الأميرة أوبسيديانا في الأسطورة القديمة؟

تابوت الزمن

Il tempo e l'acqua

An entrancing adventure for today’s troubled planet, The Casket of Time is a fantastical tale of time travel and environmental calamity from celebrated Icelandic author Andri Snær Magnason. Teenage Sigrun is sick of all the apocalyptic news about the “situation” and, worse, her parents’ obsession with it. Sigrun’s family—along with everyone else—decides to hibernate in their TimeBoxes®, hoping for someone else to fix the world’s problems . But when Sigrun’s TimeBox® opens too early, she discovers an abandoned city overrun by wilderness and joins a band of kids who are helping a researcher named Grace solve the “situation.” The world, according to Grace, is under an ancient curse. There once was a princess named Obsidiana, who was trapped in time by the greedy king of Pangea. To protect Obsidiana from dark and gloomy days, the king put her in a crystal casket made of spider silk woven so tightly that time itself couldn’t penetrate. The king’s greed for power doomed his kingdom and the trapped princess. Sigrun sees eerie parallels between the tale of Obsidiana and the present-day crisis, and realizes it’s up to her and her friends to break the ancient curse and fix the world.

The Casket of Time

Um tímann og vatnið

When Gleesome Goodday crash-lands on a beautiful island on a planet with no adults, he promises wonderful things in exchange for a bit of youth, but best friends Brimir and Hulda see that Goodday is not all he seems so it is up to them to stop him.

The story of the blue planet

A Ilusão do Tempo

Ajasta ja vedestä

O czasie i wodzie

A provocative call to action to value the environment and sustainability over capitalist exploitation.

A Self-Help Manual to a Frightened Nation

Dreamland

A Self-help Manual for a Frightened Nation

Þórarinn Eldjárn

Friðgeir Einarsson

Ágúst Borgþór Sverrisson

Einar Már Guðmundsson

Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir

Auður Jónsdóttir

Björn Halldórsson

Fríða Ísberg

Kristín Eiríksdóttir

Reluctant to observe a new family tradition, a boy finds himself stranded outside a graveyard on the night before Christmas... Three farming brothers, forced to relocate to the city by poor harvests, discover an unexpected demand for their green-fingered talents... Residents of a new apartment block are woken in the early hours by the eerie sound of a table saw that once operated on the building’s grounds... Iceland is a land of stories; from the epic sagas of its mythic past, to its claim today of being home to more writers, more published books and more avid readers, per head, than anywhere in the world. As its capital (and indeed only city), Reykjavik has long been an inspiration for these stories. But, as this collection demonstrates, this fishing-village-turned-metropolis at the farthest fringe of Europe has been both revered and reviled by Icelanders over the years. The tension between the city and the surrounding countryside, its rural past and urban present, weaves its way through The Book of Reykjavik, forming an outline of a fragmented city marked by both contradiction and creativity. Includes a foreword written by award-winning Icelandic author Sjón. Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb, Philip Roughton, Lytton Smith, Meg Matich and Larissa Kyzer. Published with the support of the Icelandic Literature Center.

A City in Short Fiction

The Book of Reykjavik

Andri Snær Magnason

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