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On Time and Water.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: Icelandic Publisher: Rochester, NY : Open Letter, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 345 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 194883023X
  • 9781948830232
Uniform titles:
  • Um timann og vatni. English
Related works:
  • Translation of: Andri Snær Magnason, 1973- Um timann og vatni
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.738/74 23
LOC classification:
  • QC903 .A57 2021
  • QC903 .A53 2021
Contents:
May you live in interesting times -- A little treasure -- A future conversation -- A projection -- The all-encompassing silence of God's great expanse -- Writer's block -- Telling stories -- The words we do not understand -- Searching for the Holy Cow -- A visit from a holy man -- A revelation from the wrong god -- Back in time -- Crocodile dreams -- A mythology for the present -- N 64° 35.378', W 16° 44.691' -- The mother of the universe, white as rime -- Farewell to the white giants -- The god in the steam engine -- Just more words -- See the blue sea -- Maybe everything will be all right -- Interview with the Dalai Lama, in his guest room, Dharamsala -- In a mother's milk -- Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni -- 2050 -- A future conversation -- Apausalypse Now: Covid-19 postscript.
Awards:
  • ASLI Choice Award
Summary: A work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change--and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future.
List(s) this item appears in: 2023 New Titles
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
BOOK BOOK NCAR Library Foothills Lab QC903 .A53 2021 1 Checked out 08/29/2025 50583020018895
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

May you live in interesting times -- A little treasure -- A future conversation -- A projection -- The all-encompassing silence of God's great expanse -- Writer's block -- Telling stories -- The words we do not understand -- Searching for the Holy Cow -- A visit from a holy man -- A revelation from the wrong god -- Back in time -- Crocodile dreams -- A mythology for the present -- N 64° 35.378', W 16° 44.691' -- The mother of the universe, white as rime -- Farewell to the white giants -- The god in the steam engine -- Just more words -- See the blue sea -- Maybe everything will be all right -- Interview with the Dalai Lama, in his guest room, Dharamsala -- In a mother's milk -- Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni -- 2050 -- A future conversation -- Apausalypse Now: Covid-19 postscript.

A work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change--and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future.

Originally published in Icelandic.

ASLI Choice Award

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