Jón Kalman Stefánsson’s Trilogy About The Boy (Redux)

One of the features of my site is that I review everything I read for the first time, with rereads merely for my own pleasure. However, on occasion, I do revisit certain works when the need, or mood, arises, and that’s the case today as I cast an eye back over a series of books that are among my favourite literary discoveries since starting the blog. We’re off to Iceland at the start of the twentieth century, where times are tough and the people are even tougher, but if you look hard enough, it’s possible to find a little tenderness – especially if you’re a boy with a mind longing to be filled with the wonders of the universe… ***** Readers in the UK have had access to the work of Icelandic writer Jón Kalman Stefánsson for quite some time now, and while North American readers haven’t been quite so lucky, his work is beginning to make it across the pond. Canadian press Biblioasis are committed to publishing Stefánsson’s work (in the translation, of course, of Philip Roughton), and next…