Eir Oddny
Eir Oddny - Land Of Love And Ruins - Paperback
Eir Oddny - Land Of Love And Ruins - Paperback
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Description: Oddn Eir is an authentic author philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer! !! !! !! ! Bj rk The winner of the EU Prize for Literature Land of Love and Ruins introduces a daring new voice in international fiction: Oddn Eir. 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 Oddn Eir invents a new intimate language between writer and reader in this enchanting book about being human in the modern world.
Title: Land Of Love And Ruins
Author(s): Eir Oddny
Publisher: Restless Books
Barcode: 9781632060723
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 10/25/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: Oddn Eir is an authentic author philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer! !! !! !! ! Bj rk The winner of the EU Prize for Literature Land of Love and Ruins introduces a daring new voice in international fiction: Oddn Eir. 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 Oddn Eir invents a new intimate language between writer and reader in this enchanting book about being human in the modern world.
Title: Land Of Love And Ruins
Author(s): Eir Oddny
Publisher: Restless Books
Barcode: 9781632060723
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 10/25/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
