Out of the Blue: New Short Fiction from Iceland

by Gerður Kristný

This extraordinary collection, the first anthology of Icelandic short fiction published in English translation, features work by twenty of Iceland's most popular and celebrated living authors--including Andri Snær Magnason, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, and Auður Jónsdóttir--granddaughter of Halldór Laxness, who won the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature. Celebrated in Europe and Scandinavia but less known in the English-speaking world,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517902533
• ISBN13: 9781517902537
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"