Bad idea!
Eilifur left her home before Christmas to collect flour, but on her way back her farm was destroyed by an avalanche.
A mooing alerts him that there is a survivor, his cow.
Below, his little Gestur.
With this improbable rescue of a cow supporting the entire stable on its back while a little boy suckles from its udder, Hallgrimur Helgason's thick and formidable novel begins.
While recounting Gestur's youth,
Sixty Kilos of Sun
tells the story of Iceland, a nation of shocking poverty at the very end of the 19th century, and which will suddenly extricate itself from the Middle Ages when the herrings come wiggling by his side.
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Small, certainly, but
“with tireless optimism”
, notes the author about this nation which
“is content to face one storm at a time and always imagines that the weather will eventually break”
.
You need optimism to survive.
Eilifur knows something about this, who rails against the frozen ground of her
“cursed country”
so…
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