The sorrow of angels
By: by Jón Kalman Stefánsson ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton
Contributors: Roughton, Philip
Publisher: MacLehose Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780857051653; 9781848662933
Subjects: Fiction; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Icelandic fiction; Translations into English
Work titles: Harmur englanna
Description: 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.
Notes: Translated from the Icelandic.

Translated from the Icelandic.