The Blue Fox

On 17 April 1868 a large sailing ship runs aground off Reykjanes, and between the barrels of fish oil on its lower deck a pitiful creature is found: a teenage girl named Abba, who turns out to have a learning disability. The naturalist Friðrik B. Friðjónsson of Brekka takes her in, and they live together on his family farm until she dies. Then begins the struggle between Friðrik and the Reverend Baldur Skuggason, priest of the valley, who is not all he seems. A romantic tale of mid-nineteenth-century Iceland that plays with the tradition of Icelandic folk tales.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

123 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, 1868

First published

2003 by Bjartur

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789979774433 (original)

9781846590375 (Telegram, United Kingdom)

9780374114459 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)