Koparakur

Gyrðir's ninth collection holds thirty-two stories. Calm and understated on the surface, they carry a steady current of unease: people withdrawn into solitude indoors or in the landscape, writers whose work goes nowhere, journeys, and fragments of a childhood remembered as alien rather than golden. In the first story a man failing to write in his conservatory discovers an unfamiliar red-leaved plant, with a large biting insect at its base.

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About the book

Form

Short stories

Length

178 pages in the original

Genres

Nature (assigned by AI)

First published

2014 by Dimma

Author's age

53 when first published

ISBN

9789935401236 (original)