
Pre-Owned A Fist or a Heart, 9781542044035, 1542044030, Hardcover, First Edition edition
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- ISBN: 9781542044035
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 202
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 202 p.
- The past returns with a fury for a woman coming to terms with her life in this award-winning novel by an acclaimed Icelandic author making her English-language debut. El�n J�nsd�ttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjav�k, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen �lfsd�ttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in El�n, but she has also stirred discomfiting memories long packed away. Because their paths have crossed before. One doesn't remember. The other is about to forget. Soon they'll discover all they have in common: difficult childhoods, trauma, and being outliers who have found space to breathe in creative expression. Yet the more El�n tries to connect with the young woman and unbox painful memories, the more tenuous her grasp on reality becomes. Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author's generation.
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- Book formatHardcover
- Fiction/nonfictionNon-Fiction
- GenreTextbooks
- Publication dateSeptember, 2019
- Pages202
- EditionFirst Edition edition
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- ISBN: 9781542044035
- Condition: Pre-Owned: Good
- Hard cover
- Language: English
- Pages: 202
- Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 202 p.
- The past returns with a fury for a woman coming to terms with her life in this award-winning novel by an acclaimed Icelandic author making her English-language debut. El�n J�nsd�ttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjav�k, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen �lfsd�ttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in El�n, but she has also stirred discomfiting memories long packed away. Because their paths have crossed before. One doesn't remember. The other is about to forget. Soon they'll discover all they have in common: difficult childhoods, trauma, and being outliers who have found space to breathe in creative expression. Yet the more El�n tries to connect with the young woman and unbox painful memories, the more tenuous her grasp on reality becomes. Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author's generation.
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