Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland - Softcover

Sarah Moss

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184708415X ISBN 13: 9781847084156

Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

Names for the Sea A compelling account of novelist Sarah Moss's extraordinary year living in Iceland - the year the Volcano erupted, and the banks crashed. Full description

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Review:

Names for the Sea is Moss's memoir of her family s first year in Iceland, a journey from southern England to the nether reaches of the North Pole, and it is quite a ride. In fact, it s one of the most enjoyable travel books I ve read ... What I was thrilled to read was the mundane oddness ... It s hilarious in its unexpectedness, more like a dispatch from Gulliver than A Year in Provence ... This is a work of humour, for sure, and I loved her puncturing of Icelanders tales of derring-do, the obsession with pride and shame. More than that, it s a work of strange intelligence that jars like poetry. So many passages made me pause, to long to read her two novels ... Moss does eventually return, and Iceland is so odd it instantly starts to feel for her fictional . I feel the same about this book: it has beauty enough to feel fictional --The Times

A fascinating and unusual book, a genuine news from nowhere, the gripping account of one person thinking and perceiving for herself --Literary Review

About the Author:

SARAH MOSS was educated at Oxford University and is a senior Lecturer in Literature and Place at the Cornwall Campus of Exeter University. She is the author of two novels; Cold Earth, and Night Waking, which was selected for the Fiction Uncovered Award in 2011, and the co-author of Chocolate: A Global History. She spent 2009-10 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Reykjavik.

About this edition

• Publisher: Granta Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 184708415X
• ISBN 13: 9781847084156
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368