Heaven and Hell

✍ Scribed by Jón Kalman Stefánsson; Philip Roughton

• Publisher: MacLehose Press
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 222
• Series: Heaven and Hell Trilogy
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In a remote part of Iceland, a young man joins a boat to fish for cod, but when a tragedy occurs at sea he is appalled by his fellow fishermen’s cruel indifference. Lost and broken, he leaves the settlement in secret, his only purpose to return a book to a blind old sea captain beyond the mountains. Once in the town he finds that he is not alone in his solitude: welcomed into a warm circle of outcasts, he begins to see the world with new eyes.

Heaven and Hell navigates the depths of despair to celebrate the redemptive power of friendship. Set at the turn of the twentieth century, it is a reading experience as intense as the forces of the Icelandic landscape themselves.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title Page
Copyright
We Are Nearly Darkness
The Boy, the Sea and the Loss of Paradise
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
Hell Is Not Knowing Whether We Are Alive or Dead
The Boy, the Village and the Profane Trinity
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
Translator's Note
Guide to Pronunciation