The Sorrow of Angels

Author/Contributor(s):	Stefansson, Jon Kalman
Publisher:	Biblioasis
Date:	11/04/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"It's been three weeks since the boy came to town, carrying a book of poetry to return to the old sea captain--the poetry Bârºur died for. Just three weeks, but already Bârºur's ghost has faded. Snow falls so heavily that it binds heaven and earth together. As the villagers gather in the inn to drink schnapps and coffee while the boy reads to them from Hamlet, Jens the postman stumbles in half-dead, having almost frozen to his horse. On his next journey to the fjords, Jens is accompanied by the boy, and both must risk their lives for each other, and for an unusual item of mail"--