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|date=February 2016
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What could be better than an existentialist book from rural Iceland, full of gnomic comments about how close life and death are, that has as its core a journey taken by, amongst others, a naïve and hormonal teenaged lad and a full coffin? Why, I hear you cry, a trilogy concerning the same. Yes, it's the obvious answer, really – why else would we come to this third part, where the survivors of the expedition rest up, note the women giving them help, and see how eminently close the circle of life is to the figure of a snake swallowing its tail through, among other things, dogs rutting in a church below the coffin's bier?
I must thank the publishers for my review copy.
The series started [[Heaven and Hell by Jon Kalman Stefansson|here]]. I would definitely recommend [[The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas, Torbjorn Stoverud and Michael Barnes (translators)]] for a look at someone stuck in rural northern lands, but only appearing to be young in one regard. Roughton also translated [[The Good Lover by Steinunn Sigurdardottir and Philip Roughton (translator)|The Good Lover by Steinunn Sigurdardottir]].
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