Сьон

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his exorcism...

Island im Winter 1883. Abba wird zu Grabe getragen, aber nicht sie, sondern Steine liegen im Sarg. Fridrik beerdigt die Leiche lieber im eigenen Garten, als sie Pastor Baldur zu überlassen. Denn der hütet ein dunkles Geheimnis. In einer poetisch klaren Sprache ertastet Sjón den schmalen Grat von Mensch und Natur und entführt uns in eine mythische Zwischenwelt am Rande des Polarkreises, wo an den e...

The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. From there we’re then transported to the world of the naturalist Friðrik B. Friðriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down’s syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster. Then to a shipwreck off the Icelandic coas...

Священник отпевает деревенскую дурочку и сразу после похорон устремляется на охоту - в погоню за чернобурой лисой, настигает ее, но и его самого настигает снежная лавина, и он то ли гибнет, то ли становится оборотнем. А тем временем, гость того же хутора - студент-ботаник выясняет, что именно связывало двух новопреставленных: юродивую и священника-оборотня...

Godina je 1883. U pozadini radnje surov je islandski krajolik. Pratimo svecenika Baldura Skuggasona u lovu na misterioznu plavu lisicu. Potom ulazimo u svijet botanicara Fri?rika Fri?jonssona i njegove sticenice Abbe, rodene s Downovim sindromom. Do kraja ovog kratkog romana, prica povezuje sudbine likova u cijim se zivotima sve preokrece. Oslanjajuci se na tradiciju islandskih narodnih prica k...

The mind-bending miniature historical epic is Sjon's specialty, and Moonstone: The Boy Who Never Was is no exception. But it is also Sjon's most realistic, accessible, and heartfelt work yet. It is the story of a young man on the fringes of a society that is itself at the fringes of the world--at what seems like history's most tumultuous, perhaps ultimate moment. Mani Steinn is q...

Bjork is a contemporary icon whose contributions to music, video, film, fashion and art have influenced a generation worldwide. Here, now, is the ultimate celebration of this multimillion-selling superstar. Designed by top design studio M/M (Paris) as a slipcased world of wonders, this publication which accompanies springs exhibition on Bjork at The Museum of Modern Art is composed of six parts: f...

“Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic .” —The Wall Street Journal Sjón’s novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse “an extraordinary, powerful fable—a marvel.” The Whispering Muse is Sjón’s masterpiece so far. The year is 1949 and...

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his exorcism...

Island im Winter 1883. Abba wird zu Grabe getragen, aber nicht sie, sondern Steine liegen im Sarg. Fridrik beerdigt die Leiche lieber im eigenen Garten, als sie Pastor Baldur zu überlassen. Denn der hütet ein dunkles Geheimnis. In einer poetisch klaren Sprache ertastet Sjón den schmalen Grat von Mensch und Natur und entführt uns in eine mythische Zwischenwelt am Rande des Polarkreises, wo an den e...

The year is 1883. The stark Icelandic winter landscape is the backdrop. We follow the priest, Skugga-Baldur, on his hunt for the enigmatic blue fox. From there we’re then transported to the world of the naturalist Friðrik B. Friðriksson and his charge, Abba, who suffers from Down’s syndrome, and who came to his rescue when he was on the verge of disaster. Then to a shipwreck off the Icelandic coas...

Священник отпевает деревенскую дурочку и сразу после похорон устремляется на охоту - в погоню за чернобурой лисой, настигает ее, но и его самого настигает снежная лавина, и он то ли гибнет, то ли становится оборотнем. А тем временем, гость того же хутора - студент-ботаник выясняет, что именно связывало двух новопреставленных: юродивую и священника-оборотня...

Godina je 1883. U pozadini radnje surov je islandski krajolik. Pratimo svecenika Baldura Skuggasona u lovu na misterioznu plavu lisicu. Potom ulazimo u svijet botanicara Fri?rika Fri?jonssona i njegove sticenice Abbe, rodene s Downovim sindromom. Do kraja ovog kratkog romana, prica povezuje sudbine likova u cijim se zivotima sve preokrece. Oslanjajuci se na tradiciju islandskih narodnih prica k...