Type:
Paperbook
Authors:
Carl Jóhan Jensen
Categories:
Novels
Origin country:
Faroe Islands
Cover:
Sámal Blak
Making up:
Sonja Kjølbro
ISBN:
978-99972-1-058-6
Date of publication :
29. August 2014
Pages:
520
Cover:
Heilbind
Eg síggi teg betur í myrkri - Forspæl til ein gleðileik
Just before noon, on Saturday 26 August 1939, a few days before the onset of World War Two, the passenger ship s/s Lyra is on its way from Bergen to the Faroe Islands.
In a chair on the back deck, sits the Icelandic poet and adventurer Benedikt Einarsson and busies himself with death through an overdose of morphine. He has arrived at the point when his past takes its vengeance. Through his yielding consciousness memories crest in dreamlike shards, memories of a life lived in the currents between two ages, the nineteenth and twentieth century, a life dedicated to literature and a vision to lift his backward nation out of poverty and stagnation.
But Benedikt Einarson’s life is also a life that has always, yes, since conception, been marked by betrayal and a selective blindness to what is happening around him, the strong will of the time. By and by, the betrayals and the blindness become increasingly dark, its consequences tragic when at last, all their threads get tangled in the plans of high-ranking Nazis.
Nøgd
Price
$35.83
Club price
$35.83
Are you not a club member? Sign up here
Your purchases will be sent to you by post for a small charge. To avoid shipping costs, you can pick them up at Bókamiðsølan (á Hjalla 7b, FO-188 Hoyvík).
Other titles Carl Jóhan Jensen
Vatn er ein vátur logi
$50.28
Terningar - søgur av tilvild
$50.28
Sær - ein fuglabók av gloymsku
$43.06
Bókin um tað góða
$28.61
Ó -, søgur um djevulskap
$43.06
Not in stock
September í bjørkum sum kanska eru bláar
$9.83
Other titles Novels
Available from summer
$50.28
New
$35.83
$43.06
$43.06
Kærleikin
$43.06
Sára Malena
$50.28