Sólskinshestur

The house on Sjafnargata is large, plenty of room for emptiness around two small siblings. Their parents, Ragnhildur and Haraldur, are doctors, intent on saving children other than their own. Things are bearable while Magda is there, who knows how to braid hair and feeds them, but she leaves, and the girl and her brother Mummi are left alone. The novel follows an upbringing without love in a big house, a first love that is lost and returns, deep grief, and an obsessive love that becomes a wall shutting out life.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

186 pages in the original

Genres

Family, Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)

Set in

Iceland

First published

2005 by Mál og menning

Author's age

55 when first published

ISBN

9789979326946 (original)