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Red milk / Sjón ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.

by Sjón, 1962-

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MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.

Nazis -- Fiction.

Fascism -- Fiction.

Iceland -- Fiction.

9780374603366 (hc.)

Korngult hár, grá augu. English.

1st American ed.

148 p. ; 20 cm.

Originally published in Icelandic in 2019 by JPV Publishing, Iceland, as Korngult hár, grá augu.

In England in 1962, an Icelandic man is found dead on a train bound for Cheltenham Spa. In his possession, policemen find a map on which a swastika has been drawn with a red pen. Who was he, and where was he going? In a novel that reads as both biography and mystery, the internationally celebrated novelist Sjón tells the story of Gunnar Kampen, the founder of Iceland's antisemitic nationalist party, with ties to a burgeoning network of neo-Nazi groups across the globe. Told in a series of scenes and letters spanning Kampen's lifetime -- from his childhood in Reykjavík during the Second World War, in a household strongly opposed to Hitler and his views, through his education, political radicalization, and final clandestine mission to England -- Red Milk urges readers to confront the international legacy of twentieth-century fascism and the often unknowable forces that drive some people to extremism. Based on one of the ringleaders of a little-known neo-Nazi group that operated in Reykjavík in the late 1950s and early 1960s, this taut and potent novel explores what shapes a young man and the enduring, disturbing allure of Nazi ideology. -from Amazon.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-148)

Historical fiction.

Icelandic fiction -- Translations into English.

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