Waitress in Fall
- 144pages
- 6 heures de lecture
A selection of poems from Icelandic poet Kristin Omarsdottir's entire thirty- year oeuvre to-date, translated from the original Icelandic.
Kristin Omarsdottir Livres
Cette auteure explore les complexités des relations humaines et des vies intérieures avec sensibilité et acuité. Ses œuvres, englobant poésie, prose et drame, se distinguent par une signature stylistique unique et des aperçus profonds de la psyché humaine. À travers ses récits, l'auteure remet souvent en question les normes sociales et révèle les motivations cachées de ses personnages. Son approche créative est également évidente dans ses collaborations avec d'autres artistes, où elle fusionne le mot littéraire avec les médias visuels, créant des projets interdisciplinaires convaincants.
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