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Book of Reykjavik
Edited by Becca Parkinson & Vera Juliusdottir
Comma Press £9.99
OUT of habit, I normally ignore a book’s various prologues, acknowledgements and afterwords as needless embellishments. It is usually better for the reader to encounter fiction unencumbered by someone else’s well-meaning but agenda-ladened framing.
For this collection of 10 short stories by contemporary Icelandic writers, I would counsel the complete opposite.
For those readers, like me, who know very little about the Icelandic capital, Sjon’s foreword and the introduction by Vera Juliusdottir provide an essential ready reckoner, an important orientation without telling us how to navigate the contributions.
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