Place of the Heart

Steinunn Sigurdardottir

เม.ย. 2014 · Brilliance Audio · บรรยายโดย Joyce Bean

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ต้องการดูตัวอย่างระยะเวลา 9 นาที ฟรีไหม ฟังได้ทุกเมื่อแม้ขณะออฟไลน์

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Winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize

Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical appearance is unique among Icelanders: so small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her father, so strange she nearly believed the children who mistook her for a mythical creature of the forest. Even as an adult, she struggles to make sense of her place in the world.

So when she sees how her teenage daughter, Edda, has suffered since the death of her best friend, Harpa sees no choice but to tear her away from her dangerous social scene in the city. She enlists the help of a friend and loads her reprobate daughter and their belongings into a pickup truck, setting out on a road trip to Iceland’s bucolic eastern fjords.

As they drive through the starkly beautiful landscape, winding around volcanic peaks, battling fierce windstorms, and forging ahead to a verdant valley, their personal vulnerabilities feel somehow less dangerous. The natural world, with all its contrasts, offers Harpa solace and the chance to reflect on her past in order to open her heart.

Winner of the Icelandic Literature Prize Single mother Harpa has always been a misfit. Her physical appearance is unique among Icelanders: so small she self-deprecatingly refers to herself as a dwarf, so dark-skinned she doubts her genetic link to her father, so strange she nearly believed the ch...

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Born in Reykjavík, Steinunn Sigurðardóttir studied philosophy and psychology at University College Dublin. She made a name for herself at the age of nineteen with a volume of poetry entitled Continuances (Sifellur, 1969). Sigurðardóttir has since become one of Iceland's most frequently translated writers, and one the most lauded, having won the Icelandic Literature Prize, the VISA Cultural Prize, and the Icelandic Broadcasting Service Writer's Prize, and having been nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize and the Aristeion Prize. Sigurðardóttir's extensive body of work includes eleven novels, seven volumes of poetry, several short stories, radio plays, television plays, and a children's book. Her novel The Thief of Time (Tímaþjófurinn, 1986) was adapted to film in France (Voleur de Vie, 1998), directed by Yves Angelo and starring Emmanuelle Béart and Sandrine Bonnaire. After an extensive and fruitful career abroad, most notably in Germany and France, Place of the Heart is Sigurðardóttir's English-language debut.