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The Sorrow of Angels
Paperback
Series: Trilogy about the Boy, Book 2
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.95
ISBN13: 9781771966801
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: Nov 4 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.25
Language: English
There are novels that make something inside you come awake, and make you want to keep it awake. Maybe that's what a classic is: not only a work that endures but one that makes something endure in you--something that lasts even after you may have forgotten the whole story and the characters' names. Such is the case with the Icelandic novelist Jón Kalman Stefánsson's 'Trilogy About the Boy'.--Salvatore Scibona, New Yorker
It's been three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain--the poetry Bárður died for. Just three weeks, but already Bárður'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 Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords, Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail.
The second installment in Stefánsson's elemental Trilogy About the Boy, The Sorrow of Angels is a timeless literary masterpiece that evokes the human struggle within the ferocious majesty of nature.
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