Showing results for "Reykjavík" in Literature & Fiction

Iceland, 1956. Fifteen-year-old Lára spends the summer working for a couple on the small island of Videy, just off the coast of Reykjavík. In early August, the girl disappears without a trace. The mystery becomes Iceland's greatest unsolved case. What happened to the young girl? Is she still alive? Did she leave the island, or did something happen to her there? Thirty years later in August, 1986, as the city of Reykjavík celebrates its 200th anniversary, journalist Valur Robertsson begins his own investigation into Lara's case.

Août 1956, une jeune adolescente de quinze ans disparaît sans laisser de traces sur une petite île au large de Reykjavík. Trente ans plus tard, l’Islande n’est plus la petite nation timide de l’après-guerre et se prépare à recevoir un grand sommet réunissant les USA et l’Union soviétique. Mais aucun Islandais n’a oublié cette énigme, jamais résolue. Alors que Reykjavík s’apprête à fêter son 200e anniversaire, une jeune journaliste décide de remonter aux sources de cette mystérieuse affaire – aux conséquences imprévisibles.

Im August 1956 verschwindet die fünfzehnjährige Lára. Sie hat in ihren Sommerferien als Haushaltshilfe auf einer beschaulichen Insel südlich von Reykjavík gearbeitet ― bis sie eines Tages wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist. Das tragische Ereignis wird zu Islands berühmtestem ungelösten Fall. Dreißig Jahre später geht der Journalist Valur kurz vor dem brisanten Gipfel zwischen Ronald Reagan und Michail Gorbatschow in Reykjavík einer neuen Spur im Fall Lára nach und riskiert damit sein Leben. Denn wenn Lára vor 30 Jahren Opfer eines Gewaltverbrechens wurde, dann hätte der Mörder gerade jetzt genug Gründe, erneut zuzuschlagen.

The Living. Erlendur works nights. He’s a young officer in Traffic, not yet a detective. And Reykjavik’s nights are full of car crashes, robberies, drinkers and fighters. Sometimes an unexplained death. The Lost. A homeless man Erlendur knows is found drowned. But few people care. Or when a young woman on her way home from a club vanishes. Both cases go cold. The Searcher. Two lost people from two different worlds. Erlendur is not an investigator, but his instincts tell him their fates are worth pursuing.

After a messy divorce, attractive young mother Sonia is struggling to provide for herself and keep custody of her son. With her back to the wall, she resorts to smuggling cocaine into Iceland and finds herself caught up in a ruthless criminal world. As she desperately looks for a way out of trouble, she must pit her wits against her nemesis, Bragi, a customs officer whose years of experience frustrate her new and evermore daring strategies.

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Happily settled in Florida, Sonja believes she’s escaped the trap set by unscrupulous drug lords. But when her son, Tomas, is taken, she’s back to square one...and Iceland. Her lover, Agla, is awaiting sentencing for financial misconduct after the banking crash, and Sonja refuses to see her. And that’s not all...Agla owes money to some extremely powerful men, and they’ll stop at nothing to get it back. With her former nemesis, customs officer Bragi, on her side, Sonja puts her own plan into motion to bring down the drug barons and her scheming ex-husband and get Tomas back.

Danni a disparu, elle se droguait, ses grands-parents font appel à Konrad, un policier à la retraite. Une fillette retrouvée noyée dans le lac du centre de Reykjavik en 1947 hante les rêves d'une des amies de l'ex-policier. Comment la police a-t-elle mené ces enquêtes ? À des années de distance les mêmes erreurs semblent se répéter. Konrad, solide, têtu, coléreux et rompu par son enfance auprès de son père à toutes les ruses des voyous, n'hésite pas à bousculer les conformismes. Il sait aussi écouter les fantômes.

I en nær, dystopisk fremtid i Reykjavik afgør en empatitest, hvem der regnes som fuldbyrdede medlemmer af samfundet – hvem der får "mærket" – og hvem der dømmes til at leve som marginaliserede outsidere. "Mærket" er en urovækkende fremtidsdystopi om AI, overvågning og sikkerhedssystemer, der får fatal indflydelse på menneskers skæbner. Empatitesten er en revolutionerende social teknologi, der kan bedømme en testtagers tendens til fx empati og amoral adfærd. Hvis man dumper testen, tilbydes et helt arsenal af behandlingsformer og ressourcer.

Einar Már Guðmundssons prisvindende romandebut fra 1982, der cementerede hans position som en af de nye tonangivende forfattere i nordisk litteratur. Romanen er en skildring fra efterkrigstidens Island af en flok drenge og deres daemoniske lege, der får skaebnesvangre konsekvenser. At blive dreng og mand, at komme til sprog og at komme til verden er baerende temaer i den taette, levende og konstant overraskende fortaelling.

Et voldsomt uvejr ryster for en nat fantasi og virkelighed sammen for en raekke personer - herunder barber Anton, en sagnkyndig sadelmager, en halvgal praest, fordrukne fiskere og druknede sømaend. Det er moderne social digtning om skolelaerere, praester, arbejdere, frisørsvende - og om børn, børn og atter børn. Men i deres verden med betonhuse, plørede veje, cafeteriaer, dueslag og søvnige barbersaloner faerdes der også nisser og dvaerge, strandvaskere, spøgelser, elverfolk og genfaerd. Her får virkeligheden en mytologisk dimension; eller også er det omvendt.

Nel 1940, quando la guerra ha ormai coinvolto anche la Scandinavia, l'Islanda richiama in patria i suoi cittadini che si trovano all'estero. Dal porto di Petsamo, in Finlandia, si imbarcheranno sull'Esja per una traversata che li riporterà a casa, al sicuro. Tra la folla in partenza, una giovane infermiera attende invano l'arrivo del suo fidanzato da Copenaghen, e teme che possa essere finito nelle mani dei nazisti.