Swanfolk
Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Jul 2022 · Random House
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'Magical and disturbing' Adam Thirlwell
An astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE*
In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life.
Elísabet likes to take 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.
Pulled into the monomaniacal, and often violent, quest of the swanfolk, Elísabet finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Soon, she is forced to reckon with the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings, and a past life she has been trying to evade.
'Ómarsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi, New York Review of Books
An astonishing, mind-bending novel about a woman discovering a community of swan-people from one of Iceland's greatest writers.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ICELANDIC WOMEN'S LITERATURE PRIZE*
In the not-too-distant future, a young spy named Elísabet Eva is about to discover something that will upend her life.
Elísabet likes to take 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.
Pulled into the monomaniacal, and often violent, quest of the swanfolk, Elísabet finds her own mind increasingly untrustworthy. Soon, she is forced to reckon with the consequences of her involvement with these unusual beings, and a past life she has been trying to evade.
'Ómarsdottir's skills as a poet and playwright are evident' Helen Oyeyemi, New York Review of Books
About the author
Kristín Ómarsdóttir (Author)
Kristín Ómarsdóttir is the author of novels, poetry, short stories and plays. She has won numerous awards including the DV Cultural Award for Literature, the Icelandic Women's Literature Prize, and the Icelandic national prize for playwright of the year. She has been nominated four times for the Icelandic Literary Award and twice for The Nordic Council Literary Prize, most recently in 2019.
Vala Thorodds (Translator)
Vala Thorodds is director of Partus Press and managing editor of Oxford Poetry. She is the recipient of a PEN/Heim Translation Fund grant and her poetry and translations have appeared in the White Review, Guardian, Granta and The Penguin Book of the Prose Poem.
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