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    CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
    CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
    CoDex 1962: A Trilogy
    Audiobook16 hours

    CoDex 1962: A Trilogy

    Written by Sjón

    Narrated by Christopher Lane

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    Longlisted for the 2019 PEN America Translation Prize and the 2019 Translated Book Award

    Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962―twenty years in the making―is Sjón’s epic threepart masterpiece

    Over the course of four dazzling novels translated into dozens of languages, Sjón has earned a global reputation as one of the world’s most interesting writers. But what the world has never been able to read is his great trilogy of novels, known collectively as CoDex 1962―now finally complete.

    Josef Löwe, the narrator, was born in 1962―the same year, the same moment even, as Sjón. Josef’s story, however, stretches back decades in the form of Leo Löwe―a Jewish fugitive during World War II who has an affair with a maid in a German inn; together, they form a baby from a piece of clay. If the first volume is a love story, the second is a crime story: Löwe arrives in Iceland with the claybaby inside a hatbox, only to be embroiled in a murder mystery―but by the end of the volume, his clay son has come to life. And in the final volume, set in presentday Reykjavík, Josef’s story becomes science fiction as he crosses paths with the outlandish CEO of a biotech company (based closely on reality) who brings the story of genetics and genesis full circle. But the future, according to Sjón, is not so dark as it seems.

    In CoDex 1962, Sjón has woven ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths into a singular masterpiece―encompassing genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, fortean studies, genetics, and, of course, the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    TranslatorVictoria Cribb
    Release dateDec 25, 2018
    ISBN9781978650473
    Author

    Sjón

    Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjón is a celebrated Icelandic author whose novels have been published in over thirty-five languages. He won the Nordic Council's Literary Prize for his novel The Blue Fox(the Nordic countries' equivalent of the Man Booker Prize) and the novel From The Mouth Of The Whale was shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. The novel Moonstone – The Boy Who Never Was received every literary prize in Iceland, including the coveted Icelandic Literary Prize. CoDex 1962, a novel in three books written over 25 years, was published in Iceland in 2016 to great acclaim. As a poet, librettist, and lyricist, Sjón has published more than a half dozen poetry collections, written four opera libretti, and lyrics for various artists. In 2001 he was nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics in the film Dancer In The Dark. Sjón is the president of PEN International's Icelandic Centre and lives in Reykjavik with his wife and two children.

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      I am rarely impacted as intensely by a novel as I have been by this absolutely brilliant novel! Icelanders are known for their storytelling ability, and Sjón is incredible! This trilogy tells multiple stories within stories within stories, culminating in an understanding of humanity's destructive creativity and greed which will result in our end. No, not a happily ever after resolution. At some point about midway through the trilogy I started looking up events which were woven into the plot, and found that indeed, 1962 was quite a year. The first radioactivity protection laws were written in Iceland, a country with no nuclear power, but whose environment started registering radioactive contamination. In 1962, thousands of Thalidomide babies were born. It was truly a year bearing consequences to "great advances". There are multiple storylines I would love to tell you about, but that would spoil the profound experience of reading this book. Thank you, Sjón, for your prophetic, profound, and powerful storytelling!