CoDex 1962 - Sjón

Category: Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Icelandic Saga Trilogy

Written by Sjón
Read by Christopher Lane
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Spanning eras, continents, and genres, CoDex 1962 - twenty years in the making - is Sjón’s epic three-part masterpiece

Josef Löwe, the narrator, was born in 1962 - the same year, the same moment even, as Sjón. Josef’s story, however, stretches back decades in the form of Leo Löwe - a Jewish fugitive during World War II who has an affair with a maid in a German inn; together, they form a baby from a piece of clay. If the first volume is a love story, the second is a crime story: Löwe arrives in Iceland with the claybaby inside a hatbox, only to be embroiled in a murder mystery - but by the end of the volume, his clay son has come to life. And in the final volume, set in present-day Reykjavík, Josef’s story becomes science fiction as he crosses paths with the outlandish CEO of a biotech company (based closely on reality) who brings the story of genetics and genesis full circle. But the future, according to Sjón, is not so dark as it seems.

In CoDex 1962, Sjón has woven ancient and modern material and folklore and cosmic myths into a singular masterpiece - encompassing genre fiction, theology, expressionist film, comic strips, fortean studies, genetics, and, of course, the rich tradition of Icelandic storytelling.

Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb

16 hrs and 44 mins
December 25, 2018