
Called Home
Agnar Thordarson(Author)
Norvik Press
Published on 15. April 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-870041-28-7 (ISBN)
Description
The story of Andri, a young man coming of age, is set against the background of the major volcanic eruption in the Westman Islands off the south coast of Iceland in 1973. By the end of the novel, passion, first love, horror, and discovery have left few things in, Andri's life as they had once seemed to be. Remarkably, however, Thordarson's contemporary romance plays out in a convincingly realistic world. "In Iceland, Agnar Thordarson is perhaps best known as a playwright since thirty of his plays have been performed on stage, radio and television... The story of Called Home is told in a way reminding us of the author's mastery of dramatic technique... The telling has the immediacy and objectivity of a stage play, with a steadily focused, slightly comic and satiric, fictional world continually before our mind's eye". from the introduction by Robert Kellogg.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Norwich
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 190 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-870041-28-7 (9781870041287)
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