Aftershocks Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 194834016X / ISBN 13: 9781948340168

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Aftershocks Format: Paperback
• ISBN 10: 194834016X
• ISBN 13: 9781948340168
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize, Quake: A Novel is a haunting novel-in-translation about Saga, a woman who comes to after an epileptic seizure on a sidewalk along busy Miklabraut Street. 

Her three-year-old son is gone. The last thing she remembers is a double-decker bus that no one else can confirm seeing. Over the following days, Saga’s mind is beset by memories and doubts. What happened before her seizure? Who can she trust? And how can she make any sense of her emotions when her memory is so fragmented?

Hailed as Aušur Jonsdottir's "best-written novel so far," Quake is a shocking and revelatory exploration of the blurred lines between fact and fiction, reality and imagination, and where mother ends and child begins.

About the Author

Aušur Jónsdóttir is one of the most accomplished authors writing in Icelandic today. Her novels have aroused interest in Iceland, as well as abroad, for their rare blend of incisive candor and humor. She won the Icelandic Literary Prize for The People in the Basement and the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize for Secretaries to the Spirits. Both of these novels were nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize. Aušur's latest novel, Grand Mal (Stóri skjįlfti) [Aftershocks], became Aušur's most successful novel to date and gathered a huge following among Icelandic readers of all ages, strengthening Aušur's position as an important writer of her generation.