The Blue Fox - Sjón

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Auteur(s) : Sjón

Editeur : Farrar, Straus And Giroux

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/04/2013

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 128

Expédition : 95

Dimensions : 19.0 x 12.6 x 1.2

ISBN : 9780374114459

Résumé :

Named one The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Esquire

Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize-the Nordic world's highest literary honor- Sj?n's
The Blue Fox is part mystery, part fairy tale, and the perfect introduction to a mind-bending, world-class literary talent.

Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter's territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sj?n's slender, spellbinding fable of a novel, none of their lives will be the same.

Biographie:
Sj?n...

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Born in Reykjav?k in 1962, Sj?n is the author of the novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone, and CoDex 1962, for which he won several awards, including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize. He has also been short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages.

In addition, Sj?n has written more than seven poetry collections, several opera librettos, and lyrics for various artists, including Bj?rk. He was nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics in Dancer in the Dark, and he cowrote the script of the film The Northman with its director, Robert Eggers. In 2017 he became the third writer - following Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell - to contribute to Future Library, a public artwork based in Norway spanning one hundred years.

He lives in Reykjav?k, Iceland.