Books by Sjón
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review 1: I read this all in one sitting on a flight home after a trip to New Orleans. I'd had high hopes for it. The blurbs were over the top in their praise of the writer, and it is true that the book was both sly and funny. I enjoyed it and was happy to have its company for my plane ...
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review 1: In reading this book I have swung from rapturous attention to aggravation and back so many times, it's hard to know where I finally land on this. But the lyricism and imagery of the prose is so spellbinding I can forgive this work of many sins. This is not a straightforward novel...
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review 1: Thank all that's holy that this book exists. Oh, yes: mysteries and furrowed brows, moments of fervid imagination, sordid histories and shocking realizations... this book has it all, and then some, if clipped and ghostly in its brief passage. Which is to say: there's a lot of com...
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review 1: The Whispering Muse hinted at the kind of wild, hallucinatory epic Sjón was capable of (cleverly restrained in that particular novel), and he lets loose with it in From The Mouth of the Whale. Mythology, Christian epic, natural history, medieval Icelandic history and the whole, w...
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review 1: So what can I say about this book. I bought it on a book sale earlier this year and just recently read it. I loved the cover and the description of the book seemed great. I have to say that From the Mouth of the Whale was nothing at all what I expected it to be. I had imagined it...
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review 1: A simple straightforward short story but at the same time lyrical and enchanting. Although a few icelandic references/terms left me a bit confused and I found myself wanting to know more about the characters, this is the kind of book that leaves you with something to think about ...
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review 1: THE BLUE FOX reads like Hemingway crossed with a more recent Jayne Anne Phillips novel. Cut into three sections, the first is a series of precise beats following a hunter who tries to take down a fox. The middle section bursts forth with life and connectivity, loss, death, and re...
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review 1: Quite fascinating how few words in one book there's needed to create a world so vivid and full of details, like how Fridrik is tapping out the tobacco from his pibe on his shoeheel.. That little gesture has so much more in it, than the action alone..it's the tiny details that all...
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review 1: Ég hef venjulega ekki haft gaman af því að greina skáldsögur. Ég vil oftast nær frekar bara njóta sögunnar án þess að leita dýpri merkingar en Mánasteinn er nefnilega bók kallar eftir því að maður velti henni fyrir sér lengi eftir lestur hennar. Það er langt síðan að íslensk skál...