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Synopsis
Tenth-century Iceland. One night in the darkness of winter, two friends set out on an adventure but end up killing a man. Kjaran, a traveling poet who trades songs for food and shelter, and Gunnar, a feared warrior, must make a choice: conceal the deed or confess to the crime and pay the blood price to the family. But their decision leads to a brutal feud: one man is outlawed, free to be killed by anyone without consequence; the other remorselessly hunted by the dead man's kin. Set in a world of ice and snow, this is an epic story of exile and revenge, of duels and betrayals, and two friends struggling to survive in a desolate landscape, where honor is the only code that men abide by.
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Tim Leach is a graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, where he now teaches as an Assistant Professor. His first novel, The Last King of Lydia, was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
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"Smile of the Wolf bares its fangs from the first page. Like a medieval tapestry, the storytelling is rich with imagery. Readers will be lured spellbound into this lyrical and evocative Icelandic saga. It deserves huge success." —David Gilman, author, Master of War
"A thoughtful, literary take on a world that is more often depicted in a boy's adventure way. The focus in Leach's book is not on the fighting, but on the strange, inescapable logic that makes the fighting inevitable." —Times
"A poetic, absorbing narrative with many of the same qualities as the medieval Icelandic sagas that it echoes and reimagines." —Sunday Times
"Through him we understand the pitiless code of honour which drives almost everyone in the story to destruction—we understand, and we care." —Historical Novel Society.
"An epic story of exile and revenge set in the snows of Iceland." —Sheffield Telegraph
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- PublisherHead of Zeus
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1788544129
- ISBN 13 9781788544122
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages352
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