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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
7:30 PM
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13187 Berlin
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Reading and Discussion / Moderator: Thomas Böhm
60 Kilo of Sundays
The grand finale of the award-winning Icelandic epic
Hallgrímur Helgason, the most important and successful Icelandic author of our time, concludes his brilliant Iceland trilogy with 60 Kilo of Sundays (60 Kilo Sonntage). It is a multi-layered, poetic, and wryly ironic portrait of a society caught between tradition and modernity.
Segulfjörður, 1918. Following a devastating avalanche, Gestur unexpectedly receives a letter from his father—a man he had long believed dead. Far from having drowned at the bottom of the sea, his father has actually been living in North America for years. Gestur decides on the spur of the moment to leave his pregnant partner, Anna, behind in Iceland and sets off to join his father. However, shortly after his arrival, his father dies, and Gestur discovers that the man was not his biological father. Plunged into a profound identity crisis, he begins the journey home to Iceland—only to find that everything there, too, has changed: Anna is now involved with another man, and a society shaken by the herring crisis is being torn apart by an ever-widening rift. With masterful skill and his signature humor, Helgason weaves political struggles and personal questions of existence into a gripping narrative about love, migration, and class conflict in 60 Kilo of Sundays. Translated from Icelandic by Karl-Ludwig Wetzig
1st edition 2026, publication date: September 12, 2026, 784 pages, hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-608-50296-1
Hallgrímur Helgason, born in Reykjavík in 1959, studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in Reykjavík before attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich for a year. He achieved his breakthrough in 1996 with the novel 101 Reykjavík, which was adapted into a film shortly thereafter. This was followed by the bestsellers Ten Tips for Quitting Murder and Starting the Dishes (2008) and Woman at 1,000° (2011). Helgason is one of Iceland’s most internationally successful authors.
Tropen Verlag: klett-cotta.de/veranstaltung/60-kilo-sonntage-v-2400
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