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Told as a long official report to a learned society in Copenhagen, the novel begins in August 1839, when Iceland's ageing surgeon general is called to the shore below Hjörleifshöfði. There lies a dark-skinned boy tangled in seaweed, alive and smiling; the bearded man who left him there knocks the doctor down and runs. With his friend Mister Undertaker, now the local postman, the doctor sets out to discover who the boy is, a quest that leads back to his own past in Copenhagen and Belgium.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

273 pages in the original

Genres

Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland, 1839

First published

2019 by Sögur útgáfa

Author's age

41 when first published

ISBN

9789935498342 (original)