- Icelandic Literary Prize 2011 · Shortlist
The Heart of Man
Hjarta mannsins
Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963)
Translated by Philip Roughton
English editions
In EnglishThe Heart of Man
MacLehose Press · United Kingdom · 2015 · 363 pages
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An old Arabic medical book says the human heart has two chambers, happiness and despair, so that one can love two people at once; the boy of two earlier novels finds that his conscience says otherwise.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 394 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iceland
- Series
- Himnaríki og helvíti, book 3
- First published
- 2011 by Bjartur
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9789935423382 (original)
9780857052643 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)
- More
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