num_pages: 186
description: In 1649, Guðmundur Andrésson is sitting apparently forgotten in Copenhagen's notorious Blue Tower, where he has been imprisoned for writing a pamphlet attacking the Great Edict, the morality law set by the Danish colonial authorities in Iceland. Interspersed with descriptions of his suffering and despair in the cell, he narrates the story of an extraordinary life. A bright but poor farmer's son, he was sponsored by a kindly scholar, but prefers a life with connections and a rich wife. The birth of a child out of wedlock, counter to the Great Edict, and his scurrilous tract seal his fate.
language: English
title: The Blue Tower
titlecomplete: The Blue Tower
ratings_count: 39
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Nordic Council Literature Prize (Nordisk Raads Litteraturpris)
publisher: Mare's Nest Pub