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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Historical fiction
The novel that put Sjon on the international map, now published by Sceptre in a stunning new package.
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
Winner of the Nordic Council Literature Prize
'Enchantingly poetic . . . spellbinding . . . magical . . . exceptional' Independent
On a stark Icelandic mountainside, the imposing Reverend Baldur Skuggason hunts an elusive blue vixen for her near-mythical pelt. The treacherous journey across snow and ice will push his physical and mental endurance to the limit.
In Baldur Skuggason's parish, a young woman with Down's Syndrome is buried. After being found shackled to the timbers of a shipwreck in 1868, she was rescued by the naturalist Fridrik B. Fridjonsson. Now he will open the package she always carried with her, hoping to solve the puzzle of her origins.
As the ice begins to melt, the mystery surrounding the trio's connected fates is unravelled in this spellbinding fable, an exquisite tale of metamorphosis by one of Iceland's most acclaimed writers.
'A magical novel' Bjork
'Describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail... Comic and lyrical.'AS Byatt, The Times
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Praise for The Blue Fox: Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023
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'Enchantingly poetic . . . spellbinding . . . magical . . . exceptional' - Independent
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Describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail...Comic and lyrical. - A.S. Byatt, The Times
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A taut, poetic and beautifully judged fable. - Carolyne Larrington, TLS
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A nearly perfect modern myth. - Wall Street Journal
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A magical novel - Bjork
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Wondrous . . . with a strange black humour at its core. - Dazed & Confused
Sjon
Born in ReykjavA k in 1962, SjA n is the author of the novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962, for which he has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
In addition, SjA n has written nine poetry collections as well as four opera librettos and lyrics for various artists. He lives in ReykjavA k, Iceland.
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