About Mare's Nest
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 | Blue Tower, The by Thorarinn Eldjarn Offenders against the Great Edict - the puritan ethical code imposed by the Danish King on his Icelandic subjecs in 1564 could include imprisonment in Copenhagen's notorious Blue Tower. £9.95 |  | The Swan by Gudbergur Bersson A nine-year-old girl is sent to a country farm to serve her probation for shoplifting - a characteristic Icelandic sentence. £9.95 |
 | Under Southern Stars by Gunnar Hoydal The children of a former UN worker revisit as adults theplaces and people they remember from travels with their father round a continent on the far side of the world. £9.95 |  | Z - A Love Story by Vigdis Grimsdottir " I want you to know the real me" - resounds tragically through this novel... To be afraid to finish reading a book is a strange feeling..." £9.95 |
The poetic tradition in Iceland reaches back over a thousand years. The relatively unchanging language allows the great Sagas to be read and enjoyed by all Icelandic speakers. Contemporary writing in Iceland, while vivid and highly idiosyncratic, is coloured and liberated by this Saga background. Closely observed social nuance can exist comfortably within the most exuberant and inventive magic realism.
While concentrating on the flourishing literature of Iceland, Mare's Nest also publishes Faroese fiction and Hungarian non-fiction.
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Pamela Clunies-Ross
Mare’s Nest
41 Addison Gardens
London
W14 0DP
United Kingdom