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Sometimes the shortest story can make the boldest point. These words are certainly true for Armann Reynison´s vignettes. Vignettes are short stories portraing images or word-pictures so many of us will be familiar with when we read it. In his fourth book, Vignettes IV Armann writes about intimate moments, funny events, exotic locales, and scenes as familiar to you as the view from your kitchen window. Presented in both Icelandic and English, these stories reflect timeless Icelandic folklore traditions as well as today's global citizen's knowledge and interest in the world. But common to all these stories or images, is the focus on moments of real life. Stories that capture the common threads that bind us all together. And sometimes fewer words can create the clearest image.
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