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These are the Faroe Islands as they were some fifty years ago: sea-washed and remote, with one generation still tied to the sea for sustenance, and a younger generation turning toward commerce and clerical work in the towns.At the post-hunt whale-meat auction, Ketil enthusiastically bids for more meat than he can afford. Thus when Ketil is seventy, he and his wife struggle to repay their debt.Heðin Brú (1901–1987), novelist and translator, was considered the most important Faroese writer of his generation and is known for his fresh and ironic style.
In a remote part of Iceland, a young man joins a boat to fish for cod, but when a tragedy occurs at sea he is appalled by his fellow fishermen’s cruel indifference. Lost and broken, he leaves the settlement in secret, his only purpose to return a book to a blind old sea captain beyond the mountains. Once in the town he finds that he is not alone in his solitude: welcomed into a warm circle of outcasts, he begins to see the world with new eyes.Heaven and Hell navigates the depths of despair to celebrate the redemptive power of friendship. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it is a reading experience as intense as the forces of the Icelandic landscape themselves.

رواية عميقة وخالدة تستعرض بصورة نابضة بالحياة صراع الإنسان مع قوى الطبيعة المهيبة. استوحاها ستيفنسن كما صرح لصحيفة "ذا انديبندنت" من زيارته لخلجان أيسلندا الغربية بقوله "...كانت مثل لكمة على أعصاب المعدة...وبدت الجبال كأنها تقول لي: لماذا لا تكتب عنا؟"المميز جداً في هذه الرواية ليس القصة بقدر ما هو اللغة: كلمات بسيطة مرتبة بطريقة ساحرة. كلمات نثرية تجول إلى لوحة فنية مذهلة، وكل مقطع فيها ينضح بالشعر الخالص، ويجد القارئ نفسه مضطراً إلى التوقف عن القراءة بين صفحة وأخرى ليتشرب ما جاء فيها.انتهى مطاف الفتى الذي أفقدته إمبراطورية البحر المالح عائلته ورفيق روحه إلى عشق الأدب، على الرغم من إدراكه أن سمك القد والشعر على طرفي نقيض، وأن الأحلام لا تسد جوع أحد. وهذا العشق يحمله معه عندما يرسل في مهمة مع ساعي البريد الذي يخاف من البحر، حيث ينطلقان في مهمتهما العسيرة وهما يرزحان تحت ثقل حقائب البريد، وتحت ثقل حوار الذات الملغز، والثلج المدوم يتربص بهما. لكنهما في هذه الرحلة يكتشفان الكثير عن الحياة وعن أعماقها الخفية.يون كالمان ستيفنسن الحائز على جائزة الأدب الايسلندية. حزن الملائكة حكاية عن الحب والموت في تضاريس وعرة تجمع بطريقة سحرية بين اليأس والتسامي

Í gamalli arabískri læknisbók segir að hjarta mannsins skiptist í tvö hólf, annað heitir hamingja, hitt örvænting. Hólfin eru tvö og þessvegna er hægt að elska tvær manneskjur á sama tíma, líffræðin býður upp á það, krefst þess myndu sumir segja, en samviskan, vitundin, segir okkur allt annað og hversdagurinn getur því verið óbærilega þungfær.

Discover the Swedish ethos of balanced living with this little book of Lagom .The Swedish concept of Lagom (pronounced "lah-gom") roughly translates to "not too little, not too much, just right." This charming book introduces readers to a new way of balanced living that promises happiness and sustainability in work and in life. Lagom provides simple solutions to juggle everyday priorities, reduce stress, eat well, and save money, with lessons on the importance of downtime, being outdoors, and Sweden's coffee break culture. Tips on removing clutter and creating a capsule wardrobe help readers achieve Sweden's famously clean and functional design aesthetic, while advice on going green and growing food gets their hands dirty.With seemingly endless financial, emotional, and environmental benefits, Lagom presents an accessible and all-encompassing lifestyle that is sure to inspire mindfulness, wellbeing, and contentment.

A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. A man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he’s there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realizes he’s lost not only his bearings, but his memory as he doesn’t recall either sister, nor their mother, the woman buried beneath the stone. As their stories unfold, he’s plunged into a history spanning centuries and a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger from afar; a woman who must abandon her son to save her family; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of happiness and must answer the difficult question of how to love and be loved. An incandescent romance about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, Your Absence is Darkness is a spellbinding story of death, desire, and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.