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Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024

A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most beloved novelists. 

A man comes…

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