Gunnar Gunnarsson

Il pastore d'Islanda

Every winter, in the days leading up to Christmas, Benedikt walks into the snowy mountains of Iceland to rescue sheep lost in the blizzards.

With his dog and his ram by his side, traversing wild snowstorms and crystalline nights, fuelled by endless cups of hot coffee, Benedikt dedicates himself to helping other living beings in need. It is midwinter in the harshest of landscapes, but this is a place of deep belonging and peace – brutal and remorseless yet irresistible and indispensable. It is also a time of peace, filled with the anticipation of that special time of year – the days before Advent.

This enchanting Icelandic classic of one man’s selfless quest at Christmas time has been newly translated into English for the first time in 90 years.

‘Gunnar Gunnarsson’s novel is the Icelandic A Christmas Carol’ Vanity Fair

‘This beautiful story with its inspirational message is too spontaneously human, too universal in its truth to be capable of being dated. . . A drama of heroic endurance . . . for all or any time’ New York Times Book Review, 1940

TRANSLATED BY PHILIP ROUGHTON

The Wintery Icelandic Christmas Classic

Advent

Aðventa

Fjallkirkjan

Jón Yngvi Jóhannsson

Svartfugl

Le berger de l'Avent

Adviento en la montaña

roman

Livets strand

"This novel, written in 1928, based on a true crime which took place in 1802 in Iceland, deals with two couples who lived on an isolated farm. One of the husbands disappears, and when the wife of the other dies, the survivors are arrested and tried for murder. It is an oddly powerful book, since Gunnarsson infuses the stark circumstances of the crime with the sense of harsh existence there and man's trials before God as well as other men. The narrator is a young and inexperienced curate, who is forced to confront the rumors and then the actuality of the two murders. The story is deepened as seen through the curate's fear and compassion, and the untenable situation at the farm is revealed only slowly through the slight testimony of the trial witnesses. And spiritual overtones strengthen the story, so that one remembers not only the uncertainties of those involved but the way in which their actions and emotions create almost elemental conflicts."--Kirkus

The Black Cliffs

Alexander de Roubetz

Aleksandra Eiche

Staffan Dahl

Russko-švedskij slovarʹ

"Trylle" handler om en lille kylling, der er den usleste kylling i hele hønsegården. Hun er forpjusket, mager og fejler alt, en kylling overhovedet kan fejle. Alligevel finder den lille dreng, der har sin gang i hønsegården, at der er noget fortryllende over Trylle, og det er der, den lille kylling får sit navn fra. Da de andre kyllinger og selv Trylles egen hønemor begynder at hakke for voldsomt på hende, må drengen enten tage hende til sig som sin egen eller lade hende gå til grunde. Gunnar Gunnarsson (1889-1975) var en islandsk forfatter, digter og skuespilforfatter, der hovedsageligt skrev på dansk. Han er mest kendt for romanerne "Borgslægtens historie", "Kirken på bjerget" og "Svartfugl". Han var nomineret til Nobelprisen seks gange i løbet af sit liv, men han modtog den aldrig. Alligevel fremstår Gunnar Gunnarsson som en af Islands største forfattere nogensinde.

Trylle og andet småkram

Guest the One-eyed

Erzählung

Advent im Hochgebirge

A Tale of the Early Days of Iceland

The Sworn Brothers

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The Sworn Brothers, a Tale of the Early Days of Iceland

The story of an Icelandic shepherd who makes a parallel journey to the great Good Sheperd, Christ.

The Good Shepherd

romaan

Õndsad on lihtsameelsed

Gunnar Gunnarsson

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