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The Ambassador
Sendiherrann
Bragi Ólafsson (born 1962)
Translated by Lytton Smith
English editions
In EnglishThe Ambassador
Open Letter · United States · October 2010 · Paperback · 298 pages
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The poet Sturla Jón Jónsson goes to a poetry festival in Lithuania. There his country's cultural ambassador has to deal with mishaps and unexpected blows on foreign soil, but also with happier surprises such as meeting the poet Liliya Boguinskaia. He struggles with an unpoetic reality, with the criminal who lives in all of us, and with the threat his own creation poses: the hard truth that to be ourselves we have to steal from others. Fine-drawn humour goes hand in hand with tragic fate.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 386 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Lithuania
- First published
- 2006 by Mál og menning
- Author's age
- 44 when first published
- ISBN
9789979327950 (original)
9781934824139 (Open Letter, United States)