Nordic Council Literature Prize ほくおうひょうぎかいぶんがくしょう
Edition 58 (2018)
Literature prizeInternational Literature PrizeNordic Literature
Winners
1 peopleÖr, known in English as Hotel Silence, follows Jónas, a divorced Icelandic handyman whose life has collapsed and who travels to a war-scarred country intending to die. As he repairs a damaged hotel and helps the people around it, he begins to see his own wounds in a different light.
The hands that repair a broken hotel slowly begin to repair a life.
288 pages
renewallonelinessjourneyaftermath of warmidlife crisis