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Kristin Eiríksdóttir

Kristin Eiríksdóttir is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, poet, and playwright from Reykjavik, Iceland. Her original edition of A Fist or a Heart won the Icelandic Literary Prize 2017 as well as the Icelandic Women’s Literature Prize 2018, and was nominated for the Nordic Council Literature Prize 2019. The novel took second place for the Icelandic Booksellers’ Prize and was selected as one of the best novels of 2017 by the Icelandic National Radio. Eiríksdóttir has published seven books and had three plays staged. Her short fiction has appeared in Best European Fiction 2011. A Fist or a Heart is her first novel to be translated into English.

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Title:: A Fist or a Heart
Written by:: Kristin Eiríksdóttir
Read by:: Janet Metzger
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 4
Duration:: 5 hours 2 minutes
Published:: September 23 2019
Available Date:: September 23 2019
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 9781978690769
Genres:: Fiction; Literary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda/Brilliance audio

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A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author’s generation.

A PAST SMASHED TO PIECES. Elín Jónsdóttir lives an isolated existence in Reykjavík, Iceland, making props and prosthetics for theatrical productions and Nordic crime flicks. In her early seventies, she has recently become fascinated with another loner, Ellen Álfsdóttir, a sensitive young playwright and illegitimate daughter of a famous writer. The girl has aroused maternal feelings in Elín, but she has also stirred discomfiting memories long packed away. Because their paths have crossed before. One doesn’t remember. The other is about to forget. Soon they’ll discover all they have in common: difficult childhoods, trauma, and being outliers who have found space to breathe in creative expression. Yet the more Elín tries to connect with the young woman and unbox painful memories, the more tenuous her grasp on reality becomes. Winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize, A Fist or a Heart is a gripping, artfully interwoven novel of power, secrets, and isolation by one of the most bracing and original voices of the author’s generation.