Illska

Agnes Lukauskaite and Ómar Arnarson meet early on a freezing Sunday morning in the taxi queue on Lækjargata; three years later he burns their home to the ground, drives to Keflavík and flies abroad. The story really begins in the summer of 1941, when half the people of the Lithuanian town of Jurbarkas were slaughtered in the surrounding woods. Two of Agnes's great-grandfathers were there, and one shot the other. Three generations later Agnes has made the Holocaust the centre of her life, an obsession that leads her to Arnór, a neo-Nazi intellectual from Ísafjörður, and into a triangle of love.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

War, Politics, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, Lithuania

First published

2012 by Mál og menning

Author's age

34 when first published

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