• Pages: 123
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Year: 2003
  • Sold to:
  • UK/Australia/New Zealand/South Africa (Telegram/Saqi Books)
  • Germany/Switzerland/Austria (S. Fischer)
  • Spain (Nórdica)
  • Sweden (Alfabeta)
  • Denmark (C&K Forlag)
  • The Netherlands (De Geus)
  • Portugal (Cavalo de ferro)
  • Galicia (Rinoceronte Editora)
  • Poland (slowo/obraz terytoria)
  • Lithuania (Apostrofa)
  • The Czech Republic (Argo)
  • France/Switzerland/Luxembourg/Canada (Payot & Rivage)
  • Italy (Mondadori)
  • Faroe Islands (Nylendi)
  • Finland (Like)
  • Norway (Tiden)
  • Serbia and Montenegro (Balcancult Foundation)
  • Turkey (Monkl)
  • Hungary (Magvetö)
  • Russia (Corpus)
  • Bulgaria (Locus Publishing)
  • Finnish Puppet Theatre Rights (Piellos)
  • Lebanon and Arab speaking world (Dar-al-Saqi)
  • USA/Philippines/Canada (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • China (Yilin Press)
  • Macedonia (Antolog)
  • Greece (Nefeli)
  • Romania (Editura Polirom)
  • Slovenia (Cankarjeva Zalozba)
  • Croatia (VBZ)
  • Brazil (Hedra)
  • Estonia (Pegasus)
  • Latvia (Mansards)
  • Albania (Aleph Klub)
  • Spain/Galicia (Nits Blanques)
  • Georgia (Sulakauri)
  • Ukraine (Vydavnytstvo)
  • India/Malayalam language (DC Books)

The Blue Fox (2003)

Author: Sjón

The Blue Fox is part mystery, part fairy tale, and the perfect introduction to a mind-bending, world-class literary talent.

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 Sjón’s slender, spellbinding fable of a novel, none of their lives will be the same.

Nordic Council Literature Prize 2005
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Shortlisted for the 2011 The Jan Michalski Prize for Literature
Named one The 50 Best Fantasy Books of All Time by Esquire

 

“When I need something epic and lyrical I call upon Sjón . . .
The Blue Fox is a magical novel.”
BJÖRK

“The Blue Fox describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail . . . Comic and lyrical.”
A. S. BYATT, THE TIMES (London)

“Enchantingly poetic . . . Spellbinding . . . Magical . . . Exceptional . . .
Require[s] that one use the loose descriptive ‘thriller’ too.”
NURUDDIN FARAH, THE INDEPENDENT

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