'Magical and disturbing'Adam ThirlwellAn astonishing,mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZEIn the not-too-distant future,a young spy named Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life.Elísabet likes to take long solitary walks near the lake. One day,she sees two creatures emerging from the water,half-human,half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality.Pulled into the monomaniacal,and often violent,quest of the swanfolk,Elísabet finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Soon,she is forced to reckon with the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings,and a past life she has been trying to evade.'ómarsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident'Helen Oyeyemi,New York Review of Books
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781529115710Number of pages: 240Weight: 200 gDimensions: 194 x 126 x 18 mm
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'Magical and disturbing'Adam ThirlwellA wild adventure... ómarsdóttir's novel is kaleidoscopic; the more you look at it,the more you see.One of the most original authors in contemporary Icelandic literature...known for subverting traditional binaries like fantasy and realism,feminine and masculine,good and evil,and the animal and the human.One of (this country's) most respected authors.A master of the unexpected.
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