Oddný Eir: Land of Love and Ruins

Cover: 9781632060723 | Land of Love and Ruins | Oddný Eir | Taschenbuch | 240 S. | Englisch

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Beschreibung

"In the wake of Iceland's financial crisis, a young author, recently separated and feeling out the uncertain terrain of a new relationship, finds herself questioning the foundations of love and family lives, bonds to country and the earth. Stirred by a dream about an old Viking woman on a pilgrimage, she sets out on a quest to the the ruins of the homes of her ancestors, where they tried to live in harmony with nature and each other. Her guiding questions are as essential as their answers are elusive: How do we create a home for love? How can we nourish personal space while sustaining intimacy and desire with a partner? How can we go, not back, but forward to nature? Drawn both to her archaeologist brother and her ornithologist lover, she explores alternate forms that those relationships might take. Her search brings her all over Iceland and abroad to Paris, Strasbourg, Basel, and the Lake District home of famous Romantic siblings Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Written in the form of a diary that pans from small details to big questions and weaves elements of philosophy, history, archaeology, ecology, eroticism, and literature into a beautifully patterned whole, Oddnay invents a new, intimate language between writer and reader in this enchanting book about being human in the modern world."--

Über den Autor

Oddný Eir (1972) is an Icelandic author whose novel Land of Love and Ruins won the EU Prize for Literature and the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize. In addition to publishing four novels and several books of poetry and essays, she has worked in the art world as a lecturer and gallerist, has received a grant to study archives and museums in Iceland, has been an environmental activist, and has collaborated with the musical artist Björk in composing lyrics for her albums Biophilia and Vulnicura. She has received advanced degrees in political philosophy from the University of Iceland and The Sorbonne. Oddný Eir lives in the Icelandic countryside, by the glacier Eyjafjallajökull.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	240 S.
ISBN-13:	9781632060723
ISBN-10:	1632060728
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Eir, Oddný
Übersetzung:	Roughton, Philip
Hersteller:	Restless Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	180 x 126 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Oddný Eir
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.10.2016
Gewicht:	0,245 kg

Artikel-ID: 131564464

Über den Autor

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	240 S.
ISBN-13:	9781632060723
ISBN-10:	1632060728
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Eir, Oddný
Übersetzung:	Roughton, Philip
Hersteller:	Restless Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Vertrieb, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, gpsr@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	180 x 126 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Oddný Eir
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.10.2016
Gewicht:	0,245 kg