This book is a truly wonderful phenomenon. Sarah Kirsch. The small airplane has brought him, the man in the middle of life, to the tiny Icelandic island of Grimsey. His journey takes him across the barren island, into solitude and nature, into a church, and back to a time when he was someone else. Linguistically brilliant, graceful, and powerful, it describes a new land that can only be seen by those who know of a better life. Ulrich Schacht was awarded the LiteraTour Nord Prize for "Grimsey.".