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The Sorrow of Angels

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

出版	MacLehose Press, 2013
主題	Fiction / General
ISBN	08570516529780857051653
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=c_11Ux9H6X8C&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

It is three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain - the poetry that did for his friend Barour. Three weeks, but already Barour's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the wide open fjords he is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail. The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless literary masterpiece; in extraordinarily powerful language it brings the struggle between man and nature tangibly to life. It is the second novel in Stefansson's epic and elemental trilogy, though all can be read independently.