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Nominations Nordic Council's Literature Prize Similar Sumarljós - og svo kemur nót, The Blue Tower, Milli trjánna, Place of the Heart, Reply to a Letter from Helga |
The Swan (orig. Icelandic Svanurinn) is a novel written by the Icelandic writer, Guðbergur Bergsson in 1991.
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Plot introduction
The story is about a nine-year-old girl sent to a country farm in Iceland to serve her probation for shoplifting (which is a characteristic Icelandic sentence). In the novel, the girl finds a kind of freedom by submitting to the inevitable restraints and suffering of remote rural life.
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