{"product_id":"9781803522548-nothing-to-be-rescued","title":"Nothing to be Rescued","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShort Stories\u003cbr\u003eIcelander Asta Sigurdardottir's world is populated by drunkards, the homeless, and the promiscuous on the fringes of society. Her short stories was reprinted posthumously in 1985, together with a number of poems and unpublished pictures. Nordisk Books will be publishing a selection of the short stories featured in that collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe caused a sensation from her early short story debut in the avant-garde magazine \u003ci\u003eLíf og list\u003c\/i\u003e in 1951 with “Sunnudagskvöld til mánudagsmorguns”, a description of drunkards, the homeless, and the promiscuous on the fringes of society. The narrative is pithy and metaphorical with elements of fantasy, the language sensuous, erotic, and partly grotesque. Her short story collection \u003ci\u003eSunnudagskvöld til mánudagsmorguns\u003c\/i\u003e was published in 1961 and was reprinted in the collection \u003ci\u003eSögur og ljód\u003c\/i\u003e, 1985, together with a number of posthumous short stories, poems, and unpublished pictures. Nordisk Books will be publishing a selection of the short stories featured in \u003ci\u003eSögur og ljód, \u003c\/i\u003eincluding a number of the pictures, under the title \u003ci\u003eNothing to be Rescued, \u003c\/i\u003etranslated by Meg Matich. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41091766878305,"sku":"9781803522548","price":10.36,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28450189.jpg?v=1722598625","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781803522548-nothing-to-be-rescued","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}