A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife.

He has also allowed a corpse to be lodged in the glacier. So the rumours go. What he discovers is a community that regards itself as the centre of the world – earthly yet otherworldly, banal yet astonishing.

Brimming with humour, mystery, and the supernatural this is a surprising and moving novel from the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY SUSAN SONTAG

Format: Paperback
Published: UK, 2022
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 272
Language: EnglishISBN 13: 9781784877613
ISBN 10: 1784877611