Hallgrímur Helgason: Rokland (Stormland) / 1st Icelandic Edition, 2005

Description: About the item Original title: Rokland / Hallgrímur HelgasonTitle in English: Stormland / by Hallgrímur HelgasonDescription: This book is a 1st edition of the novel "Rokland" (known in English as "Stormland") by Hallgrímur Helgason. This is his 6th novel. This book has long topped the bestseller list in Iceland, Denmark, Norwegian, Swedish and German. The book was nominated to the Icelandic Literary Prize in 2005 and to the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 2007. A movie, Stormland, based on the novel, was released in Iceland in 2009. It was written and directed by Marteinn Thorsson, and starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson in his first leading film role. His performance earned him an Edda Award for Best Actor.Hallgrímur Helgason is an popular Icelandic painter, novelist, translator, and columnist. He started out as a painter butgradually became a writer as well. His best known books are 101 Reykjavik (1996), Stormland (2005) and The Thousand Degree Woman (2011). Two of his novels have been turned into films and four of them have been adapted for the stage. He has held over 30 solo exhibitions in Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and France, and his works can be found in the collections of several art museums.Rokland was Helgason’s first contemporary novel since 101 Reykjavik. Set in North Iceland, in the small town of Sauðárkrókur, it tells the story of Böddi, Böðvar H. Steingrímsson, an angry blogger in the countryside, who dreams about are volution and the complete overhaul of the western capitalist system. When marketing the novel, the publisher called him:“Too intelligent for the village, too angry for the city, too frank for his country.” Soaked in German literature, philosophy and romantic idealism à la Nietzsche, after his years of study in Berlin, he finds it hard to fit into his old and very small home town. Böddi is the guy who never makes compromises. Living with his lonely mother, the TV addict, he loses his teaching job on the first page, his love midway and his mind at the end of the book.Rokland was written at the height of the boom and bubble years in Icelandic history, when the nation had completely lost it self in the materialistic craziness that led up to the big financial Crash in 2008.Language: Icelandic Dimensions: 145 × 215 × 40 mm / 5.7 × 8.5 × 1.6 inWeight: 800 g / 28 oz Pages: 391Edition: Printed in Reykjavik in 2005. Condition: Very good (see photos). Hardcover. The spine of a book is gold titling. All pages clean and unmarked, no notes or underlining, but the signature of the former owner is on the title page. Saving through combined postage I'm happy to post everything to you in the same package if you're buying multiple items from me. You get a discount on postage costs and I save money by combining items. 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