- Icelandic Literary Prize 2015 · Winner
Hundadagar
“Dog Days” (title translated by AI)
Einar Már Guðmundsson (born 1954)
English editions
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Two real lives from around 1800 drive this loosely documentary novel: the Danish adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen, who made himself ruler of Iceland in the summer of 1809, and Jón Steingrímsson, the priest of the Laki fires. Using their memoirs and many other records with great freedom, it ranges over voyages, ambition, love and folly, and links the eruption in Iceland to the French Revolution, asking whether the past speaks to the present more than we think.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 341 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iceland, Denmark, United Kingdom, France, 18th–19th century
- First published
- 2015 by Mál og menning
- Author's age
- 61 when first published
- ISBN
9789979335924 (original)
- More
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