To what does the mind turn when one reaches the end of the road and there is little ahead but eternity itself? To past times… now disagreeable memories. Nothing breaks the silence but the merciless hiss of the kettle, the everyday accompaniment to a lonely man’s reckoning with his life, love or lack of love that reaches beyond the borders of life and death – and old age, the lot awaiting everyone when the body becomes decrepit and stamina dries up.

Here Gudbergur Bergsson provides a provocative and unexpected insight into an everyday world that one and all recognize but beautify in their own particular way. Loss is a novel that exposes the individual in relation to his inevitable fate.

Chapters in English available
Spanish translation available

“Loss is a masterful narrative of how old age clutches a person…
it is funny and very bleak…
an incredibly beautifully written book.”
KILJAN, NATIONAL TV