Engar smá sögur

by Andri Snær Magnason

Í þessum gáskafullu smásögum takast persónur á við tilveru sem lýtur óvenjulegum lögmálum. Hér er meðal annars sagt frá sambúðarvanda sjómanns og hafmeyju, málvísindamanni sem lætur reyna á sannleiksgildi málshátta og hvernig heimurinn fer á hvolf þegar guð ákveður að breyta lögmálum mannanna. Einstaklega frumlegar og fyndnar sögur eftir einn hugmyndaríkasta höfund okkar.

Genres: Short Stories

111 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Andri Snær Magnason is an Icelandic writer, born in Reykjavik on July 14, 1973. An award winning author published in 40 languages. His most recent book is On Time and Water - a book seeking to explore the issue of time and climate change through language, mythology and memoir. Andri has written novels, poetry, plays, short stories, essays and he has directed documentary films. His novel LoveStar was chosen as “Novel of the year” by Icelandic booksellers, it received the DV Literary Award, The Philip K. Dick special citation Award of 2013 and won the french Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire as best foreign Sci-Fi in France 2016. His children’s book, The Story of the Blue Planet, was the first children’s book to receive the Icelandic Literary Prize and has been published or performed in 35 countries. His first book of poetry was a runaway best seller published by the Bonus supermarket chain in Iceland. The Story of the Blue Planet received the Janusz Korczak Honorary Award 2000 and the West Nordic Children’s Book Prize 2002 and the Green Earth Honor Award 2013 and the UKLA Award 2014. The play from the story was performed on the main stage of YPT in Toronto in 2005 and 2013. He has been active in the fight for preserving the delicate nature of Iceland, his book Dreamland: A Self-Help Manual for a Frightened Nation takes on these issues. Dreamland has been made into a feature-length documentary film. Andri Magnason is the winner of the Kairos Award of 2010 granted by the Alfred Toepfer institute in Hamburg. His most recent documentary films are The Hero's Journey to the Third Pole - a bipolar musical documentary with elephants and Apausalypse, available on the website of Emergence Magazine.

Andri Snær Magnason lives in Reykjavík. He is married with four children.
His work has been published to more than 40 languages.

Reviews

[Hrafnkell Úlfur · Rating 3 out of 5]

Árstíðarfjórleikurinn var ágætur.

[Karl Hallbjörnsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Skemmtilegt smásagnasafn, útúrdópað ímyndunarafl, margslunginn húmor, sérlega útsmogin rittækni.

[Magnús Jochum Pálsson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ógeðslega fyndnar smásögur. Mér þótti fyrri hlutinn betri; árstíðirnar voru misgóðar.

[Salóme · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tvær og hálf stjarna.
Þessi bók var ekki alveg minn tebolli. Ég er mikill aðdáandi þessa höfundar en ég myndi seint mæla með þessari bók hans. Hans brjálæðislega skemmtilega hugmyndaflug er svo sannarlega til staðar en sögurnar höfða ekki til mín.

[Sölvi · Rating 5 out of 5]

mjög næs bók, fyndnar smásögur og skemmtilegar. Meira flipp en ég bjóst við í fyrstu