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The first thing one notices in Kristjana Gunnars' poetry is the stunning beauty of her lyrical mysticism. That would make the work well worth the read, but these poems do more. Restless, they widen, they take in the world. Moving beyond a search for metaphysical comfort, they confront age and the many faces of colonialism. Dante, in his concern for broken vows, offers the final wisdom: one of incompleteness. Like Kristjana, we will die thirsti...

The first thing one notices in Kristjana Gunnars' poetry is the stunning beauty of her lyrical mysticism. That would make the work well worth the read, but these poems do more. Restless, they widen, they take in the world. Moving beyond a search for metaphysical comfort, they confront age and the many faces of colonialism. Dante, in his concern for broken vows, offers the final wisdom: one of incompleteness. Like Kristjana, we will die thirsti...

Fans of Nino Ricci, Marguerite Duras, Roland Barthes, and the Tao Te Ching. Readers of Duras' The Lover, Michael Ontaatje's Coming Through Slaughter, and Lisa Robertson's The Baudelaire Fractal. The individual novellas - The Prowler, Zero Hour, The Substance of Forgetting, The Rose Garden, and Night Train to Nykøbing - have been difficult to find for some time, though there is much interest in Gunnars' work. This collection will introduce a n...

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At the beginning of a new writing project-whether it's the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is "like someone you don't know knocking on your door-you either choose to let the person in or not. It's both exciting and dangerous to start a new manuscript." This book is an engagement with that "stranger" called writing. Cre...

In the tradition of Marguerite Duras, Gunnars explores a multi-layered romance-between East and West, rural and urban, silence and words.

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Nominee, Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction" The story of a daughter's vigil over her father's death and her journey through grief in the aftermath of his decision to die with dignity. An unforgettable book, a poetically charged memoir of the author's passage through grief.

In the tradition of Marguerite Duras, Gunnars explores a multi-layered romance-between East and West, rural and urban, silence and words. "A sparse but lyrical prose that fully engages the reader."-Books in Canada" "Magical, as delicious as the escape of a hazy mountain morning." "-University of Toronto Quarterly

Kristjana Gunnars Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction Combines the genres of fiction and memoir-a narrative strategy for which Gunnars has become widely respected. Focusing on a woman whose life has become a curious mix of reality and fiction, the novel responds to the issue of language and one's place in culture, provoking the essential question of what role literature plays in our lives.

A powerful postmodern novel combining the elements of a psychological thriller with the history of a people trapped by landscape and politics. A poetically charged text prowls the isolation and heartbreak of a girl growing up in Iceland in the post-war years, and her later experiences as an immigrant in North America. What emerges is a widening mystery of origins in which every word becomes a clue to the unspoken.

In Crossing the River, thirteen Canadian and European scholars celebrate the life and work of Margaret Laurence. . . . all students of Laurences art should find this a useful, probing casebook.The Globe and Mail

A woman hopelessly in love boards the night train to NykA, bing, Denmark, not knowing if the lover she leaves behind will ever be with her again. Then, through attempts to write her distant lover a letter she knows will never be sent, she recounts a long vigil, inspired by love, and her conspiracy with a waiting heart. Night Train to NykA, bing is a transformative tale that articulates the dense codes of love and the intensity of a life on the...

Settlement Poems, began after a visit with Prof. Sveinn Skorri Hoskuldsson of the Department of Nordic Studies at the University of Iceland. His encouragement led to the research behind these poems.-Kristjana Gunnars

Written in five sections, these poems/prose pemes lament the inadequacy of words to interpret passion and longing, yet, with an exquisite sense of paradox, do so in language remarkable for its poise and elegance.