{"product_id":"land-of-love-and-ruins-9781632060723","title":"Land of Love and Ruins","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Oddn  Eir is an authentic author, philosopher and mystic. She weaves together diaries and fiction. She is the writer I feel can best express the female psyche of now and has bridged the gap between rural Iceland and Western philosophy. A true pioneer        \" --Bj rk\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe winner of the EU Prize for Literature, \u003ci\u003eLand of Love and Ruins\u003c\/i\u003e introduces a daring new voice in international fiction: Oddn  Eir. In the wake of Iceland's financial crisis, a young author, recently separated and feeling out the uncertain terrain of a new relationship, finds herself questioning the foundations of our love and family lives, our bonds to country and the earth. Stirred by a dream about an old Viking woman on a pilgrimage, she sets out on a quest to the the ruins of the homes of her ancestors, where they tried to live in harmony with nature and each other. Her guiding questions are as essential as their answers are elusive: How do we create a home for love? How can we nourish personal space while sustaining intimacy and desire with a partner? How can we go, not back, but forward to nature? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawn both to her archaeologist brother and her ornithologist lover, she explores alternate forms that those relationships might take. Her search brings her all over Iceland and abroad to Paris, Strasbourg, Basel, and the Lake District home of famous Romantic siblings Dorothy and William Wordsworth. Written in the form of a diary that pans from small details to big questions and weaves elements of philosophy, history, archaeology, ecology, eroticism, and literature into a beautifully patterned whole, Oddn  Eir invents a new, intimate language between writer and reader in this enchanting book about being human in the modern world. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Restless Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781632060723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2016 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oddn\u0026#253; Eir","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39579333394613,"sku":"9781632060723","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b7786199-f651-472b-a7cd-92287a21d824.jpg?v=1617079964","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/land-of-love-and-ruins-9781632060723","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}