Names for the Sea: Strangers in Iceland [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Names for the Sea is Moss's memoir of her family's first year in Iceland, a journey from southern England to the nether reaches of the North Pole, and it is quite a ride. In fact, it s one of the most enjoyable travel books I ve read... What I was thrilled to read was the mundane oddness... It's hilarious in its unexpectedness, more like a dispatch from Gulliver than A Year in Provence... This is a work of humour, for sure, and I loved her puncturing of Icelanders tales of derring-do, the obsession with pride and shame. More than that, it's a work of strange intelligence that jars like poetry. So many passages made me pause, to long to read her two novels... Moss does eventually return, and Iceland is so odd it instantly starts to feel for her fictional. I feel the same about this book: it has beauty enough to feel fictional --The Times

A fascinating and unusual book, a genuine news from nowhere, the gripping account of one person thinking and perceiving for herself --Literary Review

Sarah Moss is an engaging, expressive writer, drawing dark humour from a year characterised by cold comfort. -- The List

'A wry memoir about a family who move to Iceland for a year in the aftermath of the financial crash. Moss discovers as much about herself as she does the Icelanders she writes about.' --Destination books this summer, Elle magazine

At the height of the financial crisis in 2009, Sarah Moss and her husband moved with their two small children to Iceland. From their makeshift home among the half-finished skyscrapers of Reykjavik, Moss travels to hillsides of boiling mud and volcanic craters, and the remote farms and fishing villages of the far north. She watches the northern lights and the comings and goings of migratory birds, and as the weeks and months go by, she and her family find new ways to live.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.