![]() ![]() Leo guards a hat box that contains something very special – our future narrator, just waiting to be born. A young maid is entrusted with caring for this starving Jewish fugitive, who is burdened by the weight of history. ![]() A battered stranger called Leo Loewe is discovered lurking in the shadows close to death, and the tavern owners attempt to help. This extraordinary performance, consisting of three books in one – the first originally published in Iceland in 1994, the second in 2001, and the third in 2016 – sets out to entertain, but also to prod the reader towards a stark realisation of human mortality and the games fate plays.īook One takes place during the second world war in an inn in a small German town. ![]() T he Icelandic literary maverick and Oscar-nominated songwriter Sjón writes with a poet’s ear and a musician’s natural sense of rhythm. ![]()
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