Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland
A memoir of a family's year living in Reykjavik that captures the fierce beauty of the Arctic landscape (Booklist).Sarah Moss had a childhood dream of moving to Iceland, sustained by a wild summer there when she was nineteen. In 2009, she saw an advertisement for a job at the University of Iceland and applied on a whim, despite having two young children and a comfortable life in Kent, England.The resulting adventure was shaped by Iceland's economic collapse, which halved the value of her salary; by the eruption of the volcano Eyjafjallajokull; and by a collection of new friends, including a poet who saw the only bombs fall on Iceland in 1943;…
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- ISBN: 978-1-61902-122-8
- EAN: 9781619021228
- Produktnummer: 19377022
- Verlag: Counterpoint Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 358 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.9 cm x D2.7 cm 364 g
- Gewicht: 364
Über den Autor
Sarah Moss was educated at Oxford University and is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Warwick University. She is the author of two critically acclaimed novels: Cold Earth and Night Walking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Iceland and now lives in west Cornwall.
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