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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Icelandic
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Sigurbjorn is an architect with big dreams. In the spring of 1952, he is busy planning Iceland's first department store. Acquiring the land in Reykjavik from his father-in-law, he begins construction in partnership with Gudbrandur, a master carpenter and friend. However, when the structure is finished and the store is about to open, his 12-year-old son is lured inside by a neighborhood man, beaten, and sexually assaulted. This work, the author's first full-length novel available in English, chronicles how this devastating event acts like a cancer on the lives of all those it touches. Sigurbjorn's world disintegrates with gathering speed as he questions his faith, his friendships, and his marriage. Then, having lost his business, he plummets into the abyss of a mental breakdown. Gunnarsson writes a convincing tale of complex emotions and personal histories. Readers unfamiliar with Iceland will nonetheless be drawn to this novel's universal themes. Recommended for large collections.?Paul Hutchison, Bellefonte, Pa.
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- PublisherFindhorn Pr
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1899197303
- ISBN 13 9781899197309
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
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Trolls' Cathedral (Shad Thames Series)
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. Paperback, x + 294 pages. Ex-library, stamped "discard", with external and internal ownership markings (labels and stamps), some cancelled. Spine and inner covers hinges reinforced with tape by the library. Corner creases, faint grubby marks on page edges externally. Interior is clean, untanned, with unmarked text. Covers show creases and rubbing to edges. -- An obsessed architect's dream to build a majestic cathedral ends when his son is beaten and sexually assaulted. Seller Inventory # 008877
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