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Scandanavian noir is a type of crime fiction that is written with a certain realistic style that is both dark and morally challenging. In some ways it is akin to the revered English author Agatha Christie where the players are introduced, analysed and in a complex series of incidents the murderer is...
A hunter/pastor, a sensitive herbalist, a young woman with Down's Syndrome, and a blue fox. The interesting, lyrically written and action packed narrative of a hunter (known first as simply "the man") and the fox who could literally and figuratively run circles around him gives way to a round-about ...
bookshelves: cover-love, iceland, published-2005, shortstory-shortstories-novellas, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, lit-richer, newtome-author, translation, oneupmanship, period-piece, autumn-2014, fantasy, fanfic-writeback, mythology Read on October 19, 2014 Translated from the Icelandic by Vict...
This book is made up of many short tales. It is difficult to say anything about them without being a spoiler due to their short length. For the first half, I thought the stories were unremittingly bleak. However, I realized at that point that I was missing the point by looking for plot or detailed ...
THE BLUE FOX reads like Hemingway crossed with a more recent Jayne Anne Phillips novel. Cut into three sections, the first is a series of precise beats following a hunter who tries to take down a fox. The middle section bursts forth with life and connectivity, loss, death, and reveals just who is th...
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