The Swan (novel)

The Swan (orig. Icelandic Svanurinn) is a novel written by the Icelandic writer, Guðbergur Bergsson in 1991.

Plot introduction

The story is about a nine-year-old girl sent to a country farm in Iceland to serve her probation for shoplifting (which is a characteristic Icelandic sentence). In the novel, the girl finds a kind of freedom by submitting to the inevitable restraints and suffering of remote rural life.

Awards and nominations

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