ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jon Kalman Stefansson was born in Reykjavik in 1963. His novels
have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for
Literature (2001, 2004, 2007) and his novel Summer Light, and then
Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in
2005.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATOR
Phil Roughton is the translator of, among others, the works of
Halldor Laxness and The Islander, a biography of Laxness by Halldor
Gudmundsson (MacLehose Press, 2008). He lives and works in
Reykjavik.
"Like an oyster--a glinting treasure in a rough shell."--Der Spiegel
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