BRAGI ÓLAFSSON
Tuesday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Here from Reykjavik, where he is one of Iceland's foremost writers (poetry and fiction), as well as an editor/publisher—Smekklwya (Bad Taste)—is Bragi Ólafsson. Probably most known in the U.S. for playing in Björk's first band, The Sugarcubes, Bragi Ólafsson is here with the novel The Pets (Open Letter), his first book to be published in the U.S. "Icelandic novelist Ólafsson's English-language debut is part Beckettian or even Kafkaesque black comedy, part existentialist novel in the Paul Auster mode, and part locked-room mystery, in which the murderee is alive and well and hiding in the bedroom ... Dark, strange, elusive, compelling, and oddly charming." – Kirkus Reviews. "Brilliantly written and funny, no, very funny ... The Pets is one of the best pieces of Nordic literature I've read in a long time." – Berlingke Tidende.

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