An odd duck of a book, by a mid-century Danish author, but you see, there is a map, and thus I am powerless to resist. The map in question is that of Sand Island, a small island off of the Danish coast, and for most of the book, entirely ice bound.  There are only a couple score of islanders, and those off on the mainland are as important as the inhabitants, since the confining ice comes abruptly and unpredictably.  The narrator, Johannes Lye, is the […]