2018
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4.14
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197
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In My Father’s Library—A Requiem, on the eighth anniversary of his father’s death, it falls to Ragnar Helgi to sort through more than 5,000 volumes accumulated by his book-publisher father during his lifetime. During this process Ragnar meditates on the relationship of fathers and sons, on memory, typography, page layout, the nature of jokes, book binding and gilding, Icelandic local lore, the music of Händel, the elfish hidden people of the Iceland’s hinterlands, the disappearance of the book as an objects, his own divorce and how things fall apart. As prose written in the spirit of poetry, a graceful, melancholic and very funny account of changing values and ways of being, My Father’s Library has been hailed as “full of beauty, confusion, grief, death and resurrection” (Ragnar Kjartansson) and “sublime and unclassifiable” (Þorgeir Tryggvason, Kiljan RÚV).
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