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The silence and its author

Ásta Kristrún's book was published at the end of November and took the flight beautifully.

Comments and reactions have shown that Ásta found the right path in her writings, as she connected the stories of her ancestors and fathers with the history of the country and the nation.

 

Her upbringing is the basic subject of the book, where she grew up in the countryside at an ideal temperature for incorporation into her parents' stories about  the people  which laid the foundation for her and her family's lives.

Author of his paternal grandmother's work,
one of the main characters in the book "That which dwells in silence".

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In her family novel, Ásta Kristrún tells the story of her ancestors. She accompanies them all over the country and weaves ties into the stories in her own graphic way.  

The people in question were active in the political and cultural history of the 19th century and up to the twentieth. But in love and  an ideal struggle, life takes a single, complex dance.

 

Based on her parents' stories, Ásta Kristrún tells a big story that she grew up with from a young age. Many dramatic stories remain in silence, because the pain that accompanies many of them has been too difficult to face. With this book, the author contributes to pulling the history of the generations out of the silence of the ages

 

From a young age, Ásta Kristrún was brought up at the source of her parents' story. In this family novel, she uses the stories she grew up with as a basis and follows the amazing life course of her ancestors. 
The storyline is wide: Húnavatnssýsla, Skagafjörður, Aðaldalur and Mývatnssveit, Hólmar in Reyðafjörður, Raufarhöfn, Oddur in Rangárvellir and Eyrarbakki, Bessastaðir, Reykjavík, Vestfjörður and Snæfellsnes and abroad Denmark, Sweden and America. The people in question were active in the political and cultural history of the 19th century and up to the twentieth.

 

But in love and  an ideal struggle, life takes a single, complex dance.

 

Many dramatic stories remain in silence, because the pain that accompanies many of them has been too difficult to face. With his book, the author contributes to pulling the history of the generations out of the silence of the ages.

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