Lit in Translation

The Creator

Skaparinn

Guðrún Eva Mínervudóttir (born 1976)

Translated by Sarah Bowen

English editions

In English

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Sveinn lives alone, devoted to making beautiful, carefully crafted sex dolls, with little contact with the world. After a long stretch of work he sees Lóa struggling to change a tyre outside, feels compelled to help and invites her in. With unforeseeable consequences he is drawn into her family's affairs while having to face his own life, ordinary people in a strange situation where help comes from an unexpected direction.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
280 pages in the original
Set in
Iceland
First published
2008 by JPV
Author's age
32 when first published
ISBN

9789935110121 (original)

9781846272516 (Portobello Books, United Kingdom)