Nothing to be Rescued by Asta Sigurdardottir

She caused a sensation from her early short story debut in the avant-garde magazine LA-f og list in 1951 with ?_oSunnudagskvAld til mA?nudagsmorguns?__, a description of drunkards, the homeless, and the promiscuous on the fringes of society. The narrative is pithy and metaphorical with elements of fantasy, the language sensuous, erotic, and partly grotesque. Her short story collection SunnudagskvAld til mA?nudagsmorguns was published in 1961 and was reprinted in the collection SAgur og ljA3d, 1985, together with a number of posthumous short stories, poems, and unpublished pictures. Nordisk Books will be publishing a selection of the short stories featured in SAgur og ljA3d, including a number of the pictures, under the title Nothing to be Rescued, translated by Meg Matich.
Binding: Paperback / softback