Jón Kalman Stefánsson

جنة وجحيم

حزن الملائكة

Hjarta mannsins

After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, Jens and the boy are far from home, in a fishing community at the edge of the world. Taken in by the village doctor, the boy once again has the sense of being brought back from the grave. But this is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame-haired Alfheidur, who makes him wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheidur, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village to which he must now inexorably return. Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north, The Heart of Man is a profound exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime simplicity. In this conclusion to an audacious trilogy, Stefansson brings a poet's eye and a philosopher's insight to a tale worthy of the sagasmiths of old..

The heart of man

A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realizes he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recall either sister, nor their mother, the woman buried beneath the stone. As their stories unfold, he's plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger from afar; a woman who must abandon her son to save her family; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of happiness and must answer the difficult question of how to love and be loved. An incandescent romance about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.

Your Absence Is Darkness

Roman

Dein Fortsein ist Finsternis

hvor går man hen hvis der ingen vej er ud af verden?

Historien om Asta

The winter nights are dark and still, you can almost hear the fish breathe on the sea bed. Snow is falling so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from 'Hamlet', Jens the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen solid on his horse. On his next journey across the wide open fjord and the icy landscape beyond he is accompanied by the boy. Both will risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual delivery.

The sorrow of angels

Harmur englanna

Summer Light, and Then Comes the Night

O Coração do Homem

Primeiro livro da trilogia de Jón Kalman Stefánsson, um dos maiores escritores contemporâneos da Islândia. Numa parte remota da Islândia do século XIX, um pequeno barco de pesca é apanhado no meio de um violento temporal e a tragédia abate-se sobre os homens. Entre os tripulantes, um jovem pescador fica surpreso pela aparente indiferença dos companheiros à morte por hipotermia do seu único amigo. Desiludido e confuso ao retornar, ele decide abandonar sua aldeia, arriscando atravessar a pé as montanhas em pleno inverno, com uma ideia fixa: chegar à cidade mais próxima para devolver o livro Paraíso perdido, de John Milton, a um velho capitão cego, que o emprestara a seu amigo. Uma história vívida e lírica, com a intensidade da paisagem natural islandesa.

Paraíso e inferno

ضياء الصيف ثم يقبل الليل

Iets ter grootte van het universum

Skurðir í rigningu

Islande, XVIIee siècle. Le révérend Pétur, un homme tourmenté précédé d’une réputation sulfureuse, écrit une longue lettre à une destinataire mystérieuse. Après des études à Copenhague et un séjour en Angleterre, il a été nommé à la paroisse de Brúnisandur dans les fjords de l’Ouest. À son arrivée, Pétur est accueilli par la servante Dóróthea, une femme à la mémoire prodigieuse et au caractère affirmé. Elle deviendra rapidement un soutien indéfectible face à l’adversité et dans son projet de relater les événements tragiques qui secouent l’île : le bailli Ari Magnússon – représentant de la couronne danoise – a décidé de s’attaquer aux pêcheurs espagnols échoués sur l’île après le naufrage de leurs bateaux, et Pétur tente d’empêcher le pire. Son récit oscille entre le passé et le présent, l’intime et le politique, et met en scène des personnages inoubliables – un capitaine anglais amoureux de l’Islande, la chienne Sappho, les pêcheurs espagnols Pedro et Sebastián, la mystérieuse Helga – pour raconter cette tragédie qui compte parmi les pages les plus sombres de l’histoire de l’Islande. Corps célestes à la lisière du monde est un très grand roman, assurément l’un des plus puissants de Stefánsson, à la résonance très contemporaine.

Corps célestes à la lisière du monde

El invierno llega a su fin, pero la nieve aún lo cubre todo: el suelo, los árboles, los animales, los caminos. Luchando contra el gélido viento del norte, Jens, el cartero que recorre los aislados pueblos de la costa oeste de Islandia, se refugia en casa de Helga, donde varias personas se encuentran reunidas bebiendo café y aguardiente, y escuchando recitar Shakespeare de labios de un joven forastero que llegó a la aldea tres semanas atrás con un baúl lleno de libros. Sin embargo, ni el calor del hogar ni la buena compañía retienen a Jens, que continúa la marcha para entregar el correo en uno de los fiordos más remotos de la región

La tristeza de los ángeles

Kalman Stefànsson Jã3n

A middle-aged man on a bench in a London park sees Paul McCartney sitting nearby. He wonders whether he should go over and offer him a book, the Epic of Gilgamesh. But first he must collect his thoughts. His imagination runs away with him, and he thinks back to his own youth . . . A mother plays 'Yellow Submarine' on the harmonica to her seven-year-old son. She dies and leaves a void. A few months later, The Beatles split up. Another great loss in the boy's life. A distant father doesn't make things easier. Only when the boy starts borrowing books from the library does he understand the direction his life should take. Yellow Submarine is a masterful and life-affirming novel that sees a boy's childhood linked to the timeless story of that is the Epic of Gilgamesh, to The Beatles, and to Iceland in the eighties. A compelling read, written with great feeling. Translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton

My Yellow Submarine

The final installment of Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Trilogy of the Boy is a profound exploration of life, love and desire written with a sublime simplicity. After coming through the blizzard that almost cost them everything, the postman Jens and the boy are far from home in a fishing community at the edge of the world. It is a strange place, with otherworldly inhabitants, including flame haired Alfheidhur, who makes the boy wonder whether it is possible to love two women at once; he had believed his heart was lost to Ragnheidur, the daughter of the wealthy merchant in the village, to which he must now return. Set in the awe-inspiring wilderness of the extreme north of Iceland, The Heart of Man, the final book in Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s audacious Trilogy of the Boy, is a profound exploration of life, love and desire, written with a sublime simplicity.

The Heart of Man

The second installment in Stefánsson’s Trilogy About the Boy is a timeless story that portrays the human struggle for hope within the ferocious majesty of Iceland. It’s been three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain—the poetry Bárður died for. Just three weeks, but already Bárður's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords, Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The second installment in Stefánsson’s elemental Trilogy About the Boy, The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless literary masterpiece that evokes the human struggle within the ferocious majesty of nature.

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