Your Absence is Darkness

"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefansson''s book, nor the uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods "Stefánsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS "A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefánsson is a writer of great scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul "Stefánsson''s prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour" BOYD TONKIN, Spectator A spellbinding saga about the inhabitants and inheritors of one rural community, by one of Iceland''s most celebrated novelists. A 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