{"product_id":"dr-pa-a-reykjavk-murder-mystery-9781911469261","title":"Drápa: A Reykjavík Murder Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the frozen January of 1988, Gr ta Birgisd ttir, 26-year-old resident of Reykjav k, Iceland, was murdered by her husband, the boxer Bragi  lafsson. Bragi claimed the murder was an accident. The couple had been drinking for four days when a physical argument broke out. In the end Bragi strangled Gr ta with ropes before going to sleep again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years later, celebrated Icelandic writer Ger ur Kristný interviewed Bragi in the very apartment where the crime had taken place. This novel-poem, which takes its form from Old Norse shield poetry and its mood from modern Nordic crime, is the product of that interview: a commemoration of one woman's death and, through this lens, of all women's deaths at the hands of violent men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an epic poem whose conciseness belies a mysterious and deeply powerful narrative, the Devil, in shapeshifting animal form, takes us through the events before, during and after the moment of ultimate violence, offering the victim a narrative she was denied until now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is Viking poetry at its most contemporary.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e ARC Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/30\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911469261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 122\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.29d","brand":"Ger\u0026#240;ur Kristn\u0026#253;","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38014786830517,"sku":"9781911469261","price":11.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b986f997-e3d8-479d-ada1-e4e2517094a7.jpg?v=1609150192","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dr-pa-a-reykjavk-murder-mystery-9781911469261","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}