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Hjartsláttur
''Hjartsláttur'' ('heart-beat') is the fourth novel for young people by Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir. It was published in 2009 in Reykjavík by Mál og menning. Form The novel is a third-person narrative. Each chapter is from the perspective of a particular character and takes its title from that character's name. Occasionally the same event is narrated twice from different characters' perspectives, illuminating the way in which the same event can be understood differently by different people. The novel's characters explicitly draw inspiration from the story of Tristan and Isolde and the novel's plot bears some resemblance to this medieval romance. Plot The main characters are around fifteen years old: Íris Sól and the new boy in her class, Tristan. Tristan is the son of Gerður and a Somali-Danish man later named as Karl; the fact that he is black is incidental to the plot but fairly often commented on in the text. At the beginning of the story, Tristan knows nothing about his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir
Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir (born 1 May 1953, in Reykjavik) is an Icelandic author, noted for her children's books. Ragnheiður was born in a family of painters and writers. She graduated as a teacher from the Iceland University of Education, Kennaraskóli Íslands in 1973, and took a degree in art history at Aarhus University in 1979. She also studied literature at the University of Iceland. Ragnheiður worked as a teacher in Reykjavík for several years, and was editor of Iceland's National Centre for Educational Materials 1990–96. She has both illustrated and written books for children and teens. Her first book, ''Ljósin lifna'', was published in 1985. Ragnheiður has retold and illustrated various Icelandic folktales, pre-eminently in her book ''Sagan af Hlina konungssyni''. Amongst other prizes, Ragnheiður won the Icelandic Children's Book Prize for her 2000 book ''Leikur á borði''; and the Nordic Children's Book Prize in 2005 for her novel ''Sverðberinn''. Her most rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |