Land of Hope (2014)
2014
199 pages
Fiction
They arrive in Reykjavik on foot, two friends, hoping to find employment in a good home as maids. In the meantime, they support themselves by washing clothes, salting fish, carrying coal, for these are the occupations open to independent women. Their workdays are long and difficult. Nevertheless, they choose the hard but independent town life over the dependent drudgery of the countryside.
Reviews
“An ode to the common women.”
KILJAN, NATIONAL TV
“… it is exactly this ‘everyday’ of the period that Kristin is able to capture so well; it is easy to sense the cold and the fatigue, the swollen hands and the battle with the white linen, but also the joy in the small and the comical.”
BOKMENNTIR.IS
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Germany/Austria/SwitzerlandVerlag C.H. Beck