The Fires Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir Larissa Kyzer Translation by Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir, Larissa Kyzer (translation) 9781662500145, 9781662500169, 9781662500152, 1662500149, 1662500165, 1662500157 instant download after payment.

Anna Arnardóttir has fire in her blood. A second-generation volcanologist, she's Iceland's leading expert on the fire-breathing giants that could, without warning, reduce a country to ash. Her work regularly puts her in harm's way, but Anna never takes unnecessary risks, living an orderly, suburban life with her tax-lawyer husband & children. Then a series of earthquakes rocks Reykjavík, & Anna's stable life is suddenly on shaky ground when she falls for Tómas Adler, a bohemian photographer. As Anna tumbles into a passionate affair, the earthquakes take a violent turn. Small volcanic eruptions herald disaster to come, but will she trust what she knows in her heart is about to happen? Or listen to her head & risk the safety of the entire nation? Having so much of her world & what she knows about herself upended, can she trust her instincts? 

The Fires is a lyrical, heart-stopping tale of survival and self-discovery about one woman's reckoning with all she holds sacred--though it will take every fiber of her being.

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Larissa Kyzer is a writer and translator from Icelandic. Her translation of Kristín Eiríksdóttir’s A Fist or a Heart was awarded the American Scandinavian Foundation’s 2019 translation prize. The same year, she was one of Princeton University’s Translators in Residence. Her translation of Sigríður Hagalín Björnsdóttir’s The Fires was released in 2023 & will be followed by Fríða Ísberg’s The Mark & Snæbjörn Arngrímsson’s One True Word in 2024. Larissa has received grant funding & support from organizations including the Fulbright Commission, the Icelandic Literature Center, & Finland’s Kone Foundation. She is a former co-chair of PEN America’s Translation Committee & runs the virtual Women+ in Translation reading series Jill!