Hidden People
Original Icelandic title: Huldukonan
About this book
Being translated into English by Larissa Kyzer
It is 1984, and the women of the Lohr family cannot fathom why Sigvaldi – twenty eight years old, the most handsome and eligible bachelor of the fjord – has never dated a woman. For a decade he has lived in solitude, a hermit in the old family house at Dýrleifarvík, an abandoned fishing cove beyond the mountain.
Then one day, Sigvaldi appears on his mother’s doorstep with a month-old daughter in his arms – and refuses to reveal who the mother is.
The women set out to uncover the truth. As they gather clues, they unravel the family’s own saga: folktales of Dýrleifarvík, the lost child of 1903, the runaway mother, strange dreams, and the eerie pull of the mountains themselves.
In Hidden People, Fríða Ísberg weaves mystery, romance, and fantasy into a sharp and surprising literary tale - by turns tender, unsettling, and slyly funny – that asks what was lost, and what was gained, when Iceland stepped into modernity.
Publishers
- Original publisher Icelandic: Benedikt
- English (UK & Commonwealth): Fitzcarraldo
- English (US): Riverhead
- English (Australia & New Zealand): Text Publishing
- Croatian: Sonatina
- Danish: Gyldendal
- Dutch: De Geus
- Finnish: WSOY
- French: Laffont
- German: Fischer
- Greek: Ikaros
- Italian: Iperborea
- Norwegian: Aschehoug
- Portuguese (Brazil): Fósforo
- Russian: Polyandria
- Spanish: Literatura Random House/PRH
- Swedish: Norstedts
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