Swanfolk

Name: Swanfolk
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SKU: 9781529115710
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By Kristín Ómarsdóttir

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Swanfolk by Kristín Ómarsdóttir is a fascinating blend of fantasy and introspection. It follows a human protagonist who stumbles upon a hidden group of hybrid creatures, part swan, and part woman, in a secretive marshland. The narrative explores themes of transformation and identity, wrapped in a lyrical and mysterious atmosphere.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate unique blends of surrealism and fantasy, with a storyline that blurs the lines between reality and imagination. This novel offers a rich, thought-provoking narrative that explores themes of secrecy, transformation, and the human connection to the mythical. It may particularly appeal to those who enjoy intricate storytelling with a touch of otherworldly mystery.

Swanfolk

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An astonishing mind-bending novel about a woman's discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.

Magical and disturbing - Adam Thirlwell

An 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 PRIZE

In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life.

Elisabet 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, Elisabet 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.

Ómarsdóttir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident - Helen Oyeyemi, New York Review of Books

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Swanfolk by Kristín Ómarsdóttir is highly praised for its magical and unsettling narrative. Reviewers describe the novel as a kaleidoscopic adventure, highlighting Ómarsdóttir's talent for subverting traditional binaries such as fantasy and realism, and her mastery of the unexpected. The author is acclaimed as one of the most original voices in contemporary Icelandic literature.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529115710

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 July 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Contributors:

Translated by Vala Thorodds

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 194.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 240

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About the Author

Kristin marsd ttir (Author) Kristin marsd ttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019. Vala Thorodds (Translator) Vala Thorodds is director of Partus Press and managing editor of Oxford Poetry. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and her poetry and translations have appeared in the White Review, Guardian, Granta and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.