Your Absence is Darkness"Comparisons do not do justice to the complexity of Stefnsson's book, nor the uniqueness of his prose" DANIEL MASON, author of North Woods "Stefnsson shares the elemental grandeur of Cormac McCarthy" EILEEN BATTERSBY, TLS "A rich depiction of life, love and loss . . . Stefnsson is a writer of great scope and imagination" RONAN HESSION, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul Stefnsson's prose rolls and surges with oceanic splendour" BOYD TONKIN, Spectator A