Jón Kalman Stefánsson

In a remote part of Iceland, a boy and his friend Bárður join a boat to fish for cod. A winter storm surprises them out at sea, and Bárður, who has forgotten his waterproof as he was too absorbed in Paradise Lost, succumbs to the ferocious cold and dies. Appalled by the death and the fishermen's callous ability to set...

"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefánsson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods "Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS "A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefánsson is a writer of great scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION, author of Leonard and...