Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter an elusive enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. At the edge of the hunter’s territory a naturalist struggles to build a life for his charge a young woman with Down syndrome whom he had rescued from a shipwreck years before. By the end of Sjón’s slender spellbinding fable of a novel none of their lives will be the same. Winner of the 2005 Nordic Council Literature Prize—the Nordic world’s highest literary honor—The Blue Fox is part mystery part fairy tale and the perfect introduction to a mind-bending world-class literary talent.
