Explores reinvention and displacement through a woman's life across five decades for deep human insight
Translated from Icelandic by Lytton Smith, offering unique cultural and linguistic perspectives
Award-winning author Sigrun Palsdottir brings historical realism and narrative complexity
Engages readers with a blend of rural Iceland, 1970s air travel, and lost astronauts for a rich, immersive story
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September 8, 2026 novel | pb | 190 pgs. 5.5" x 8.5" 978-1-960385-54-3 The latest novel from the winner of the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature.
Teddý lives with her parents on a farm in the Icelandic wilderness. It’s 1962, and the world is changing, although you wouldn’t know it from the stark quiet of the lava fields and mountains
