![]() Plotting a constellation of singular, glittering images that are rendered nonetheless complete, this magnificent compilation intersects the paths of its characters, who are at once isolated in their individual pursuits and yet connected in the vast realm of dreams. Despite the desolation of their surroundings, the characters encounter strange company: ghostly presences in the early hours, enviable neighbors, and fellow writers with remarkably similar ambitions. ![]() WINNER OF THE 2011 NORDIC COUNCIL LITERATURE PRIZE Gyrir Elasson’s stories take us out of ourselves. LibraryThing is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Along the lonely western shores of Iceland, among its vast mountain ranges and its barren lava fields, this sublime collection of short stories blends the desires and efforts of its numerous protagonists, nearly all intent on taking leave of their normal lives in order to pursue their dreams more seriously. A Boston ornithologist speeds through the landscape in a four-by-four chasing Arctic Terns a schoolboy is relocated to the northernmost town of Siglufj rdur to compete in a chess tournament and a husband packs his wife off to visit her aunt in Sweden. Read 'Stone Tree' by Gyrdir Eliasson available from Rakuten Kobo. Gyrðir Elíasson, author of McSweeneys Issue 15 (Mcsweeneys Quarterly Concern), on LibraryThing. ![]() Along the lonely western shores of Iceland, among its vast mountain ranges and its barren lava fields, this sublime collection of short stories blends the desires and efforts of its numerous protagonists, nearly all intent on taking leave of their normal lives in order to pursue their dreams more seriously. ![]()
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