Red Milk: Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023

By the internationally acclaimed Icelandic writer Sjón, a timely novel about a young neo-Nazi in post-WWII Iceland and the roots of the far-right global networks of today.

WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY''S NORDIC PRIZE 2023

''A book like a blade of light, searching out and illuminating the darkest corners of history . . . It''s vivid, unputdownable, alive, and written with unerring artfulness and subtlety.'' Neel Mukherjee

Gunnar Kampen grows up in Reykjavík during the Second World War in a household fiercely opposed to Hitler and Nazism. A caring brother and son, at nineteen he seems set to lead a conventional life. Yet in the spring of 1958, he founds a covert, anti-Semitic nationalist party with ties to a burgeoning international network of neo-Nazis - a cause that will take him on a clandestine mission to England from which he never returns.

In this striking novel, inspired by one of the ringleaders of an Icelandic neo-Nazi group formed in the late 1950s, Sjón masterfully constructs the portrait of an ordinary young man who becomes a right-wing zealot. Exposing the roots of the far-right movements of today, Red Milk is a timely reminder that the seeds of extremism can be hard to detect and the allure of fascism remains dangerously potent.

• | Author: Sjon, Victoria Cribb
• | Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• | Publication Date: Feb 03, 2022
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781529355925
• | ISBN-10: 1529355923