Dorsche haben traurige Augen. Geschichten aus Island

"I knew next to nothing about this island in the North Atlantic. I knew about Icelandic ponies, volcanoes, geysers, glaciers. This cliché of the land of fire and ice. Well, and then this volcano under the glacier with the unpronounceable name Eyjafjarðarjökull erupted and shut down air traffic in most of Europe." Iceland is the land of fairy tales and folk tales. In 16 short stories, the author brings Iceland's fairytale landscape to life: lonely villages, fjords framed by snow-covered mountains and moss-covered lava fields. Against this backdrop, touching stories from Icelandic everyday life unfold snapshots that give us insights into the world of thoughts and feelings of the people there and inspire us to reflect. The often melancholy stories are about love, escape from everyday life, loneliness, family and homesickness, encounters between Deut.