Sjón

An elusive fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest, while a naturalist endeavors to build a life for a young woman with Down syndrome whom he rescued from a shipwreck years earlier.

A Novel

The Blue Fox

Hanscho

There he took off his haversack and removed his gloves, skin-shoes and knitted stockings, laying them to dry on the rock beside him. No, damn it, he took off every stitch and sat there as he was created: in nothing but his skin. He was the child of Earth Sun's-daughter.

Blue foxes are so curiously like stones that it is a matter for wonder. When they lie beside them in winter there is no hope of telling them apart from the rocks themselves; indeed, they're far trickier than white foxes, which always cast a shadow or look yellow against the snow.

The sun warms the man's white body, and the snow, melting with a diffident creaking, passes for birdsong.

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