Erlendur didn’t believe in premonitions, visions or dreams, nor reincarnation or karma, he didn’t believe in God although he’d oftenread the Bible, nor in eternal life or that his conduct in this world would affect...

He knew at once it was a human bone, when he took it from the baby who was sitting on the floor chewing it.

He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I’m not. There’s something in those people that breaks down all the barriers, because they act completely the way they are, have nothing to hide, never...

It was not like the old days and they both knew it. They were weighed down by the awareness of their failed relationship, of the wasted years, of the feelings that were no more, of...