{"product_id":"9781529418798","title":"Your Absence is Darkness","description":"Author: Jon Kalman Stefansson\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781529418798\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Quercus Books\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Jun 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 432 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose\" DANIEL MASON, author of \u003ci\u003eNorth Woods\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Stefansson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy\" EILEEN BATTERSBY, \u003ci\u003eTLS\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . \u003cb\u003eStefansson is a writer of great scope and imagination\" RONAN HESSION, author of \u003ci\u003eLeonard and Hungry Paul\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eStefansson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour\" BOYD TONKIN, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland's most celebrated novelists.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA man comes to awareness in a church in rural Iceland, not knowing why he's there or how he arrived. When a local woman offers to reunite him with her sister, he realises he's lost not only his bearings, but his memory as well: he doesn't recognise either woman, and as their stories unfold, he is plunged into a history spanning centuries and lives: a city girl drawn to the fjords by the memory of a blue-eyed gaze; a farmer's wife whose essay on the humble earthworm changes the course of lives; a pastor who writes to dead poets and falls in love with a stranger; a musician plagued by cosmic loneliness, who discovers that his life has been a lie; and an alcoholic transfixed by the night sky. Faced with the violence of destiny and the effects of choices, made and avoided, that cascade between lives, each discovers the cost of following the magnetic needle of the heart.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn incandescent, audacious novel about the misfortune of mortality and the strange salve of time, \u003ci\u003eYour Absence is Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding story of death, desire and the perfect agony of star-crossed love.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTranslated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46363126661278,"sku":"ADS-9781529418798","price":24.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781529418798.jpg?v=1767313283","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781529418798","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}