About this title: Freya Morris lives an almost nocturnal existence working in a basement photography studio in Manhattan - when she is summoned back to the formative place of her youth, a remote Icelandic-Canadian village called Gimli, where her ancient grandmother clings to life. Freya is the last in a remarkable family line. Her immigrant grandfather, a famous poet, became the keeper of Iceland's cultural flame: a powerful blend of language, myth, history, and genealogy, all shaped by the challenge of living on a subarctic island covered by vast lava fields and immense glaciers. After a massive volcanic ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Date Published: 2009-03-03
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: SAINT MARTIN'S PRESS INC. Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 352 pages. Freya morris lives an almost nocturnal existence working in a basement photography studio in manhattan-when she is summoned back to the formative place of her youth, a remote icelandic-canadian village called gimli, where her ancient grandmother clings to life. (Hardback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Date Published: 2009-03-03
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780312378776ISBN:0312378777
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"This 2009 coming-of-age novel is the story of Freya, a girl from the Canadian-Icelandic community near Winnepeg. At the age of 7, Freya falls under the influence of a beautiful, flamboyant and deeply disturbed (bipolar, paranoid)aunt who teaches her Icelandic and fills her head with Icelandic poetry and mythology. When Freya is 13, the aunt takes her (without parental permission) on a trip to Iceland, which ends in disaster. Freya is deeply wounded, and retreats into herself, but ultimately returns to her community of origin, and to Iceland, to discover the truth that had been hidden from her by her family. The novel is rich in vivid physical descriptions, and details of Icelandic language, culture and history. I recommend it highly."
"What a great novel! Sunley weaves together a tale of immigration and regeneration that references, invokes, and even uses some of the tropes and devices at the heart of Icelandic language and literature. But there's more, the author's description of the local features of Iceland made me yearn to visit this nation. So enticing did I find her descriptions that I spent a couple hours staring at images online - including travel possibilities! Snobs be warned: this book does adhere to generic conventions; there were no major surprises in the plot. The pleasures were those of prose, observation, and characterization... More than enough for me!"
"As a poet who writes about runes, I adore kennings. So finding out that there is an emphasis on kennings in this novel attracted me to it. Sure enough there was a paragraph in The Tricking of Freya that inspired me to start the process on a new rune poem. Needless to say,I enjoyed the mythology element and the Icelandic history element.
Although I saw the plot resolution coming a while before the big reveal, I did think the characterization was quite good."
"This Icelandic saga is full of myth and legend, family drama and accentuated with a vivid description of a beautiful landscape. It tells the story of Freya Morris, a North American woman of Icelandic descent who is obsessed with uncovering a family secret.
Freya grew up in Connecticut but each summer she visited her relatives in Gimli Manitoba, a tinny village in Canada settled by Icelandic immigrants. There she falls under the spell of her aunt Girdie and the story of a secret child she once gave birth to. Freya hopes to meet her cousin and in memoirs recounts her search for this unknown relative.
This is a strange novel, one I found extremely hard to get into. It is written in a form of letters from Freya to her cousin, from the age of 7 to her adult life. It showcases the culture of Iceland and its complicated language. Ms Sunley has masterfully described the landscape, painting in ones mind a country of mesmerizing scenery giving her novel a rich tone. The cast of loveable characters are multi-dimensional and realistic. As for the plot, it was a wonderful journey into Iceland.
I found the story to be a little on the slow side and its climax was evident early on."
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