The Blue Fox: A Novel

Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter's territory, a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge, a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sjn's slender, spellbinding fable of a novel, none of their lives will be the same. Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prizethe Nordic world's highest literary honorThe Blue Fox is part mystery, part fairy tale, and the perfect introduction to a mind-bending, world-class literary talent.