Waitress in Fall
- 144 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
A selection of poems from Icelandic poet Kristin Omarsdottir's entire thirty- year oeuvre to-date, translated from the original Icelandic.
Kristin Omarsdottir Bücher
Diese Autorin erforscht die Komplexität menschlicher Beziehungen und innerer Welten mit Feingefühl und Scharfsinn. Ihre Werke, die Poesie, Prosa und Drama umfassen, zeichnen sich durch eine einzigartige stilistische Handschrift und tiefe Einblicke in die menschliche Psyche aus. Durch ihre Texte hinterfragt die Autorin oft gesellschaftliche Normen und deckt die verborgenen Motivationen ihrer Charaktere auf. Ihr kreativer Ansatz zeigt sich auch in der Zusammenarbeit mit anderen Künstlern, wo sie das literarische Wort mit visuellen Medien verbindet und so eindrucksvolle multidisziplinäre Projekte schafft.
An astonishing dystopian novel about a woman's discovery of a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers. In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elisabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her carefully controlled life. Elisabet's work is the lynchpin of her existence in the city; her friends and social life centre around the Special Unit. But recently Elisabet has found herself taking long solitary walks near the lake. One day, she sees two creatures emerging from the water, half-human, half-swan. She follows them through tangles of thickets into a strange new reality. Elisabet's walks turn into regular visits to these swan women, who reveal to her the enigma of their secret existence, and their deepest desires. Pulled further and further into the monomaniacal, and often violent, quest of the swanfolk she finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Ultimately, Elisabet is forced to reckon with both the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings and a past life she has been trying to evade. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S FICTION PRIZE* PRAISE FOR KRISTIN OMARSDOTTIR- ' marsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi, New York Review of Books