Steinunn Sigurðardóttir

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The Good Lover tells the story of Karl Astuson, whose love life consists of a string of meaningless affairs; the only woman who came close to his 'perfect' mother was his first and only love Una, who left a void within Karl that he seems unable to fill. Impulsively and uncharacteristically, he travels back to Reykjavik and wins her over. But before they have the chance to live out their happy ending, Karl's womanizing past catches up with him when an ex immortalizes him in a novel as 'the good lover'.

The Good Lover

'HEIDA IS A FORCE OF NATURE . . . EXACTLY THE RIGHT SORT OF MODERN ROLE MODEL' SUNDAY TIMES The inspiring story of Icelandic sheep farmer, former model and feminist heroine Heida Asgeirsdottir has become a double prize-winning international bestseller. As heard on Radio 4's Start the Week I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons . . . drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay bales" "I can repair your tractors". . . Heida is a solitary farmer with a flock of 500 sheep in a remorseless area bordering Iceland's highlands. It's known as the End of the World. One of her nearest neighbours is Iceland's most notorious volcano, Katla, which has periodically driven away the inhabitants of Ljótarstaðir ever since people first started farming there in the twelfth century. This portrait of Heida written with wit and humour by one of Iceland's most acclaimed novelists, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir, tells a heroic tale of a charismatic young woman, who walked away from a career as a model to take over the family farm at the age of 23. I want to tell women they can do anything, and to show that sheep farming isn't just a man's game. Divided into four seasons, Heida tells the story of a remarkable year, when Heida reluctantly went into politics to fight plans to raise a hydro-electric power station on her land. This book paints a unforgettable portrait of a remote life close to nature. Translated into six languages, Heida has won two non-fiction prizes and has become an international bestseller. We humans are mortal; the land outlives us, new people come, new sheep, new birds and so on but the land with its rivers and lakes and resources, remains. 'UTTERLY CHARMING' MAIL ON SUNDAY 'REVELATORY AND INSPIRING' HERALD

A Shepherd at the Edge of the World

Heida

safn til eftirmæla eftir hluta Ívarsen- ættbálks og tengdafólk á 20. öld. Útgefið, safnað, flokkað og ritstýrt af fræðimanninum Lýtingi Jónssyni frá Veisu í Önguldal

Síðasta orðið

Forfatteren er etablert som lyriker i islandsk litteratur, men her har hun skrevet en roman som berører vår tids store tragedie: den enslige mor som ser datteren gå til grunne i stoffmisbruk. Romanen skildrer oppbrudd og en reise i forsøk på å redde datteren. Det blir en reise som like mye foregår på det indre plan som det ytre. Boken inneholder flere skildringer av islandsk natur og folkeliv.

Hjartastaður

Słoneczny Paryż kontra wulkany i lodowce Islandii. Pełna humoru i lodowatej ironii rozprawa o feminizmie i wolności seksualnej. Maria Hólm, islandzka wulkanolog, która cudem przeżyła wypadek na lodowcu, jest u szczytu kariery. Kiedy wyrusza do Paryża, aby wygłosić wykład, w samolocie poznaje niezwykłą elegancką kobietę. Następnego dnia spotyka ją podczas śniadania w kawiarni. Gemma jest zdeterminowana, chce zrewolucjonizować świat, odebrać władzę mężczyznom i przekazać ją w ręce kobiet. To, co głosi, jest dla Marii kompletnie nowe, podobnie jak nagła fascynacja Gemmą. Kim jest kobieta o dziwnym głosie, jednocześnie chrapliwym i łagodnym? I czego chce od Marii? Steinunn Sigurðardóttir to jedna z najbardziej uznanych islandzkich pisarek, laureatka Icelandic Literary Award. Przez ponad dwadzieścia lat pracowała w islandzkim radiu RÚV, przygotowywała też programy telewizyjne. Kobiety z klasą to ironiczny i humorystyczny manifest autorki w obronie postulatów feministycznych i wolności seksualnej. W tej powieści ukazuje wszystkie swoje atuty: lodowatą ironię, cięty styl, poczucie humoru i niepowtarzalne spojrzenie na miłość i erotyzm.

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