Land of love and ruins
(Book)
Uniform Title
Author
Contributors
Roughton, Philip, translator.
Published
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.
Format
Book
Edition
First Restless Books paperback edition.
ISBN
1632060728, 9781632060723
Physical Desc
236 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Status
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Published
Brooklyn, New York : Restless Books, 2016.
Edition
First Restless Books paperback edition.
Language
English
ISBN
1632060728, 9781632060723
Notes
General Note
Translated from the Icelandic.
Description
"In the wake of Iceland's financial crisis, a young author, recently separated and feeling out the uncertain terrain of a new relationship, finds herself questioning the foundations of our love and family lives, our bonds to country and the earth. Stirred by a dream about an old Viking woman on a pilgrimage, she sets out on a quest to the the ruins of the homes of her ancestors, where they tried to live in harmony with nature and each other. Her guiding questions are as essential as their answers are elusive: How do we create a home for love? How can we nourish personal space while sustaining intimacy and desire with a partner? How can we go, not back, but forward to nature? Drawn both to her archaeologist brother and her ornithologist lover, she explores alternate forms that those relationships might take. Her search brings her all over Iceland and abroad to Paris, Strasbourg, Basel, and the Lake District home of famous Romantic siblings Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Written in the form of a diary that pans from small details to big questions and weaves elements of philosophy, history, archaeology, ecology, eroticism, and literature into a beautifully patterned whole, Oddný Eir invents a new, intimate language between writer and reader in this enchanting book about being human in the modern world."--,Provided by publisher
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Chester Library - Adult Fiction | FICTION EIR | Available |
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir., & Roughton, P. (2016). Land of love and ruins (First Restless Books paperback edition.). Restless Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir and Philip, Roughton. 2016. Land of Love and Ruins. Restless Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir and Philip, Roughton. Land of Love and Ruins Restless Books, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Oddný Eir Ævarsdóttir,, and Philip Roughton. Land of Love and Ruins First Restless Books paperback edition., Restless Books, 2016.
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