And the Wind Sees All

Relaxing Nordic hygge in a novel; the entire story takes place in two minutes.

In this story we hear the voices of an Icelandic fishing village. On a summer’s day a young woman in a polka-dot dress cycles down the main street. Her name is Kata and she is the village choir conductor. As she passes, we glimpse the members of the village: a priest with a gambling habit, an old brother and sister who have not talked for years, and a sea captain who has lost his son. But perhaps the most interesting story of all belongs to the young woman on the bicycle. Why is she reticent to talk about her past?

Why Peirene chose to publish this book:

Reading this book was like embarking on a gentle journey – with music in my ears and wind in my hair. Yes, there is some darkness in the tales, and not every character is happy. But the story is told with such empathy that I couldn’t help but smile and forgive the flaws that make us human.

'A heart-warming gem of a novel' David Mills, The Sunday Times

'An exceptional novel, full of music, sun and longing’Fréttablaðið

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And the Wind Sees All

Relaxing Nordic hygge in a novel; the entire story takes place in two minutes.

In this story we hear the voices of an Icelandic fishing village. On a summer’s day a young woman in a polka-dot dress cycles down the main street. Her name is Kata and she is the village choir conductor. As she passes, we glimpse the members of the village: a priest with a gambling habit, an old brother and sister who have not talked for years, and a sea captain who has lost his son. But perhaps the most interesting story of all belongs to the young woman on the bicycle. Why is she reticent to talk about her past?

Why Peirene chose to publish this book:

Reading this book was like embarking on a gentle journey – with music in my ears and wind in my hair. Yes, there is some darkness in the tales, and not every character is happy. But the story is told with such empathy that I couldn’t help but smile and forgive the flaws that make us human.

'A heart-warming gem of a novel' David Mills, The Sunday Times

'An exceptional novel, full of music, sun and longing’Fréttablaðið

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Relaxing Nordic hygge in a novel; the entire story takes place in two minutes.

In this story we hear the voices of an Icelandic fishing village. On a summer’s day a young woman in a polka-dot dress cycles down the main street. Her name is Kata and she is the village choir conductor. As she passes, we glimpse the members of the village: a priest with a gambling habit, an old brother and sister who have not talked for years, and a sea captain who has lost his son. But perhaps the most interesting story of all belongs to the young woman on the bicycle. Why is she reticent to talk about her past?

Why Peirene chose to publish this book:

Reading this book was like embarking on a gentle journey – with music in my ears and wind in my hair. Yes, there is some darkness in the tales, and not every character is happy. But the story is told with such empathy that I couldn’t help but smile and forgive the flaws that make us human.

'A heart-warming gem of a novel' David Mills, The Sunday Times

'An exceptional novel, full of music, sun and longing’Fréttablaðið


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781908670472
Publisher: Peirene Press
Publication date: 10/17/2018
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 628 KB

About the Author

Guðmundur Andri Thorsson was born in 1957 in Reykjavik. He works as a writer, translator, editor and newspaper columnist and has published ten books, including four novels. And The Wind Sees All was nominated for The Nordic Council Literary Prize 2012 and chosen as one of the fifty best books published in Denmark in 2014. It is Thorsson’s first time to be translated into English.
Andrew Cauthery read Law at Oxford. After graduation, he worked in the Iceland Symphony Orchestra (and learned Icelandic).
Together, Andrew Cauthery and Björg Árnadóttir have translated English texts into Icelandic and Icelandic texts into English. Literary works in Icelandic include translations of Wind in the Willows for Iceland State Radio and A Map of Nowhere by Gillian Cross, for Mál og Menning. Works in English include Tim and the Time Machine by Sigrún Eldjárn, three crime novels (House of Evidence, Daybreak, and Sun on Fire) by Viktor Arnar Ingólfsson for Amazon Crossing, and The Super Book of Science by Vilhem Anton Jónsson for Edda USA. Their translation of Andri Snær Magnason’s Tímakistan is due to be published by Restless Books.
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