Hallgrimur Helgason’s third and final volume in the Sixty Kilo Saga has been published, and fantastic reviews are already pouring in
Five stars out of five
★★★★★
Sixty Kilos of Sundays is a monumental work, both mentally and physically. [Helgason] possesses a rich stylistic talent: he creates credible dialogues among people of different backgrounds, crafting situations that are vivid in conversations between two people, smaller groups, large gatherings, and meetings. He stages interactions with great finesse, arranging events in aerial perspectives, both near and far. [Helgason] employs both minor and major characteristics in sound, light, and shade, weaving them into larger wholes where irony, wit, ambiguity, intimacy, and praise balance in a writing style that is simultaneously disciplined and polished yet often extravagant and playful in its vivid imagery.
[Helgason] is a master of language and needs no comparative grammar to assert that few can match him in our time, as he has become so playful and articulate.
There is much brilliance in [Helgason’s] writing in this volume: the use of color, descriptions of twilight and light, intricate glimmering fabric in flying poetry, and lightning-fast shifts in the narrative that leave the reader astonished by his skill and tricks in the language. And then there’s the construction of this great work.
[Helgason] has given us a masterpiece that will outlast our time and shape the understanding and knowledge, as well as the feelings of future generations about the perilous adventure that the beginning of herring fishing at Siglufjordur represented.
Stars? The starry sky sparkles in the final flourish of the series.
PBB, HEIMILDIN WEEKLY
“This is an immense work … the most significant event in Icelandic literature, at least in this century, and even if both this century and the last were counted … [60 Kilos of Sundays] is like a simmering ball of herring making its way into the fjord – everything bubbles and swells with narrative joy and thrilling events.”
OLINA KJERULF THORVARDARDOTTIR, KILJAN NATIONAL TV
“[Sixty Kilos of Sundays]…is undeniably a remarkable achievement in the realm of Icelandic literature”
EGILL HELGASON, KILJAN NATIONAL TV
“Helgason’s best book to-date … Sixty Kilos of Sundays is a magnificent conclusion in an extraordinary opera.”
SS, LIFDU NUNA
Helgason is a renowned storyteller and has conducted popular workshops where he opens his books wide for his readers. Now, he has taken it a step further because now Helgason presents the Sixty Kilo Saga on stage with his well-known mastery, reading excerpts from his books, lifting the veil on his creative process, backstories, and inspirations, and bringing his characters to life like never before.
