Your Absence Is Darkness

Longlisted for the 2024 Republic of Consciousness US and Canada Prize • A World Literature Today Notable Translation of 2024 • A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2024

A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland''s most beloved novelists. 

A man comes to awareness in a cold church in the Icelandic countryside, not knowing who he is, why he’s there or...