The Blue Fox

In the snowflake that lingered on his fingertip lay a gleaming hair –there was no mistaking the colour:blue. Discussing this brief novel in the book club and afterwards glancing through its pages another time, this book grew on me, unveiling more of its magical beauty and mysteries reading some of it......more

'I have seen the universe, it is made of poems.' ‘All things change—nothing perishes.’ – Ovid It always astonishes me when a book can create a vast amount of power and meaning out of such little story and length. Set amid the snow and ice of an Icelandic winter, Sjón’s The Blue Fox, winner of the 2005......more

jeff vandermeer's drawing of the cover: the first sentence of the book’s description on the back cover of my copy is: Set against the stark backdrop of the Icelandic winter, an elusive, enigmatic fox leads a hunter on a transformative quest. which is itself an elusive, vague sentence, but it is als......more

This slim work is a simply told tale that is packed with layers of intrigue, history, visual stimuli and legend. The novel is written in spare yet evocative prose that combines the stillness of snowbound vistas with underlying hints of foreboding. The resulting aura entices the reader into a two pro......more

Hmm. I bought this just because it sounded interesting, and it made me remember why I stopped doing that. The synopsis was better than the book. There were so many characters with different names that it got confusing, the format was discombobulated, it was pretty hard to understand and in general I......more