Saga Ástu

Named after Ásta Sóllilja from Laxness's Independent People before she was born, Ásta grows up as the little family that wanted her falls apart. She is fostered, sent to a farm as a difficult teenager, has a child and loses it, and keeps going not from strength of will but because life offers no exit. Her father Sigvaldi, lying on a pavement, recalls it all. The novel is about love and longing, letters that never arrive, the Icelandic countryside, and writing itself.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

443 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland

First published

2017 by Benedikt

Author's age

54 when first published

ISBN

9789935488121 (original)

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