The Temperature of Life in Nordic Literature

Keflavik is known as the darkest place in Iceland, a barren lava, a sea that cannot be fished, and a US military base that cannot be driven away. Writer and publisher Ali returns here because of his seriously ill father, and memories of his childhood flood back, including Pink Floyd, stealing supplies from US military trucks and a girl he can't forget. My grandfather and grandmother were Icelanders who built their lives on the sea of ​​the East Fjords with courage and will. At that time, the ancient custom was still popular, men brought glory and glory by going to sea, and women endured the cruel wait on the shore. The love of his ancestors, the praise of nature and the glory of life all deeply attracted Ali. In this same place of mountains and oceans, why did the former glory turn into a life with only profits instead of heartbeats? An unbearable question mark arose in Ali's heart.

The New Yorker book critic James Wood called his book "a kind of magic that makes people unable to stop reading." This book is the first one to describe the tense relationship between the author or the man named "Karl Owerk Nausgaard" and his father when he was growing up, and the sudden death of his father runs through the book. The opening chapter unabashedly describes the process of physical death. After a long and shocking passage, it suddenly turns around. Knausgaard is just an ordinary person who goes to school in the city, falls in love early, drinks and smokes, loves music and writing, and is no different from everyone on the surface. However, daily life is full of countless conflicts and struggles, which cannot be alleviated even by death.

It is Africa that awakens the inner self. From the age of twenty-nine to forty-six, I was always empty-handed because I had touched everything. I always set out again and again, but nowhere is it better than Africa. I have no way of explaining it, but I know the stars are clearer in Africa than anywhere else. Africa took away everything from me, but also gave me everything. "Out of Africa" ​​is an autobiographical novel written by Karen Blixen based on her true experience of living in Africa. In 1914, Karen Blixen followed her husband to Kenya and ran a coffee estate at the foothills of Ngo Mountain. She used her seventeen years of experience and thirty-one years of nostalgia to write an epic about Africa. She also used her courage and strength to define her life.

Norse mythology is the important origin of all fantasy culture! Neil Gaiman, the master of fantasy literature and author of "American Gods", retells the glorious and magnificent Norse mythology! Ragnarok has arrived, and the ancient gods are about to awaken. Where does Thor's hammer come from? Why did Odin, the father of the gods, lose an eye? What is the identity of Loki, who is both good and evil? In the two thousand years since its birth, it has gone through many interpretations, and the origin of Nordic mythology has become increasingly blurred. Now, Neil Gaiman, the master of fantasy literature, has clarified the context of Nordic mythology and reproduced this glorious and magnificent mythological system in a brand-new way. From the World Tree to the Nine Worlds, from the birth of everything to the Twilight of the Gods, from the golden apples of youth to the giant wolf Fenir... In Gaiman's writing, the story is reborn and the gods are resurrected one by one.

What kind of helplessness and despair forced a middle-aged man to rob a cashless bank with a toy gun on the morning before the New Year. The robbers who failed in their operation fled in panic into an apartment for sale on the top floor of the building, which was full of potential buyers who were looking at the house. From there, the robbery turned into a hostage-taking case. However, things developed unexpectedly. There was no confrontation between police and robbers, and no fatal blow. After a long day, the eight hostages were released safe and sound, but the robbers were completely missing. The police interrogated the hostages one by one, only to find that each of them had a lot of complaints and questions, but no one could tell and didn't care where the robbers had gone.

The set includes: "Once Upon a Time in Iceland 1: The Wild Sea", "Once Upon a Time in Iceland 2: Catching the Stars", and "Once Upon a Time in Iceland 3: The Letter Writer".

Eels are one of nature's strangest creatures. To this day, we still know very little about it. European eels are born in the Sargasso Sea, an ocean with hard-to-define boundaries, and then travel to the coast of Europe, where they swim into rivers and streams to live. After living peacefully for decades, when the biological clock rings, it will complete its last transformation and embark on a long journey back to its birthplace, where it will reproduce and die. If it cannot start its journey, it seems to wait for eternity and never change. For more than two thousand years, eels have remained a mystery. Aristotle was convinced that it had no gender, and Freud was repeatedly frustrated in his attempts to find its genitals. No one has ever seen eels mating. The mysterious eel fascinates Patrick. Just as elusive as the eel is the complex and subtle relationship between him and his father. He explores the fields of literature, art, religion and the history of science, while reminiscing about his childhood days spent fishing for eels with his father. The eel's unknowability, its clumsy and romantic life journey, are like metaphors, triggering our thinking and understanding of survival and death, purpose and meaning.

Bear Town is a small town, which is remote and lonely, with long winters and a lot of snow. The people in the town know how to be silent and patient. Bear Town is a small town, an ice hockey stadium, several families, a bar, a forest, a boy and a girl, a group of boys and several girls, a group of men and a group of women. It is quiet. It broke out one night when a girl's shirt was torn and a button fell to the floor. How should we live? How to love? How to win? How to protect that precious thing? How to choose and be a better person? This is a small town, but this is a whole world. There are many people here, but in the end you only read about yourself.

Gustafsson said frankly: "This is a book about pain. It depicts the journey to the end ruled by pain-under the pain, there is nothing else." When the snow and ice began to melt in winter, Lars Lennart Westin, a primary school teacher turned beekeeper, suspected that he had cancer and that he would not have much time left. He threw the unopened diagnosis notice into the fireplace and refused to spend the rest of his time in the hospital. Instead, he chose to live in seclusion in the countryside and start his "self-rescue journey" alone. He recalls a past that was both real and illusory, and illness makes his feelings more acute... The main body of the novel consists of three notebooks left by the protagonist. Opening them, Westin's final life trajectory and mental journey slowly unfold. Through keen yet humorous philosophical thinking, the stubbornness and courage of ordinary people facing the pain of life are presented.