- Icelandic Literary Prize 2014 · Winner
Öræfi: The Wasteland
Öræfi
Ófeigur Sigurðsson (born 1975)
Translated by Lytton Smith
English editions
In EnglishÖræfi: The Wasteland
Deep Vellum Publishing · United States · 2 October 2018 · Paperback · 352 pages
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Bernharður Fingurbjörg, an Austrian expert on place names, came to Iceland to lead an expedition onto the Vatnajökull glacier and to see the spot where, twenty years before, a gruesome crime had struck his mother among others. In 2003 he stumbles out of the wilderness into the Skaftafell service centre, battered and bleeding. Mixing absurd humour with sharp satire, the novel becomes a lament for the wild places of Iceland, of the mind and of the nation's culture.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 342 pages in the original
- Genres
- Satire, Nature (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Iceland, 2003
- First published
- 2014 by Mál og menning
- Author's age
- 39 when first published
- ISBN
9789979334866 (original)
9781941920671 (Deep Vellum Publishing, United States)