Quake: A Novel (Paperback)

Meg Matich

ISBN 10: 194834016X / ISBN 13: 9781948340168

Published by Dottir Press, New York, 2022

About this Item

Paperback. Written by widely acclaimed author. Auur Jnsdttir has won the Icelandic Literary Prize, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and others, in addition to being the granddaughter of perhaps the most famous Icelandic writer, Halldor Laxness.Hailed as Jnsdttir's "best book yet."Quake: A Novel has garnered a huge following for Jnsdttir in Iceland that holds the potential to carry to the U.S.Translated by Meg Matich, author of Magma, forthcoming from Grove Atlantic in July 2021.Lyrical, evocative writing, with sharp and intuitive characterization praised by numerous Icelandic national media outlets.Centers the intersectional experiences of disability and motherhood. The book has wide potential readership and highlights lesser-heard experiences and voices. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Quake: A Novel (Paperback)
• Publisher: Dottir Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194834016X
• ISBN 13: 9781948340168
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: 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 Auður 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

Auður 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. Auður's latest novel, Grand Mal (Stóri skjálfti) [Aftershocks], became Auður's most successful novel to date and gathered a huge following among Icelandic readers of all ages, strengthening Auður's position as an important writer of her generation.