CoDex 1962

Sjón 1962- (author.). Cribb, Victoria, (translator.). Sjón 1962- Augu þín sáu mig. English. (Added Author). Sjón 1962- Með titrandi tár. English. (Added Author). Sjón 1962- Ég er sofandi hurð. English. (Added Author).

Summary: Josef Löwe, the narrator, was born in 1962—the same year, the same moment even, as Sjón. Josef’s story, however, stretches back decades in the form of Leo Löwe—a Jewish fugitive during World War II who has an affair with a maid in a German inn; together, they form a baby from a piece of clay. If the first volume is a love story, the second is a crime story: Löwe arrives in Iceland with the clay-baby inside a hatbox, only to be embroiled in a murder mystery—but by the end of the volume, his clay son has come to life. And in the final volume, set in present-day Reykjavík, Josef’s story becomes science fiction as he crosses paths with the outlandish CEO of a biotech company (based closely on reality) who brings the story of genetics and genesis full circle. But the future, according to Sjón, is not so dark as it seems.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250238122
Physical Description: 517 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition: First Picador Edition.
Publisher: New York, New York : MCD, an imprint of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [2019]
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Trilogy"--Front cover. "Originally published in Icelandic in 2016 by JPV Publishing; Iceland. English translation originally published in 2018 by Sceptre, Great Britain" -- Verso title page. Translation of: Augu þín sáu mig, Með titrandi tár, and Ég er sofandi hurð.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I . Thine eyes did see my substance : a love story -- Part II. Iceland's thousand years : a crime story -- Part III. I'm a sleeping door : a science-fiction story -- Epilogue.