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Codex 1962

Codex 1962

A Trilogy

by Sjon
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 22/01/2019

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Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962-twenty years in the making-is Sjon's epic three-part masterpiece

Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjon has earned a global reputation as one of the world's most interesting writers. But what the world has never been able to read is his great trilogy of novels, known collectively as CoDex 1962-now finally complete.

Josef Loewe, the narrator, was born in 1962-the same year, the same moment even, as Sjon. Josef's story, however, stretches back decades in the form of Leo Loewe-a Jewish fugitive during World War II who has an affair with a maid in a German inn; together, they form a baby from a piece of clay. If the first volume is a love story, the second is a crime story: Loewe arrives in Iceland with the clay-baby inside a hatbox, only to be embroiled in a murder mystery-but by the end of the volume, his clay son has come to life. And in the final volume, set in present-day Reykjavik, Josef's story becomes science fiction as he crosses paths with the outlandish CEO of a biotech company (based closely on reality) who brings the story of genetics and genesis full circle. But the future, according to Sjon, is not so dark as it seems.

In CoDex 1962, Sjon has woven ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths into a singular masterpiece-encompassing genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, fortean studies, genetics, and, of course, the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling.
ISBN:
9781978650497
9781978650497
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
22-01-2019
Publisher:
Brilliance Corporation
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
171x140x13mm
Weight:
0.09kg
Sjon

Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjon is an Icelandic writer whose novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962 have been translated into thirty-five languages.

He has won several awards including the Nordic Council's Literature Prize for The Blue Fox and has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, while Moonstone won the Icelandic Literary Prize and the Icelandic Booksellers' prize for Novel of the Year.

Sjon has also published nine poetry collections, written four opera librettos as well as lyrics for various artists, and was nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics in the film Dancer in the Dark.

In 2017, Sjon became the third writer - following Margaret Atwood and David Mitchell - to contribute to Future Library, a public artwork based in Norway spanning 100 years. He lives in Reykjavik, Iceland.

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