The little book of the Icelanders, Alda Sigmundsdottir

// Essay // Humor // published: 2013, original version in English // 124 pages

Did you know that "the Icelandic telephone directory records people with some charming and, er, unconventional professions. Did you know, for example, that in Iceland there are 6 winners, 9 wizards, 3 alien trainers, 18 cowboys, 52 princesses, 14 ghost exterminators, one former tough guy, 59 Jedi masters and (personally my favorite) 2 hen's ear whisperers".

The reason?

Discover it in The Little Book of Icelanders, in which journalist, writer and translator Alda Sigmundsdóttir paints a tasty, funny and well-documented portrait of her native country in 50 snapshots.

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