Winter Journey (1999)
1999
482 pages
Fiction
Winter Journey (1999)
Sigrun Gisladottir is an ambitious Reykjavik businesswoman during World War II who pays a high price for the fulfillment of her goals.
With his highly acclaimed trilogy Trolls’ Cathedral (1992), Potter’s Field (1996) and Winter Journey (1999), Olafur Gunnarsson has earned a place among the major realists in Icelandic letters. This third novel in Gunnarsson’s trilogy deals with difficult questions of integrity, loyalty and responsibility in a world where “homo homini lupus est”.
Reviews
A dramatic family saga! Olafur Gunnarsson describes Iceland’s journey towards modernity in a perfectly unsparing, eloquent and, at the same time, accessible style!
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (about Trolls’ Cathedral)
It could be said that with his trilogy Olafur Gunnarsson has begun a new chapter in Icelandic literature. By his choice of subject, and no less through his broad, realistic and epic narrative approach, he has shown that the art of storytelling still has a place in the literature of these post-modern times.
Morgunbladid newspaper
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