Photo Taken by Oddvar, of www.oddvar.com
Zombie Iceland is the debut novel of award-winning journalist and writer Nanna Árnadóttir. While Zombie Iceland is technically an Icelandic book, written by an Icelander and published by an Icelandic publisher, the novel itself is in English and is aimed at tourists looking for a different sort of travel book.
The book itself is geared at travelers by including footnotes explaining Icelandic food, culture, history and even some handy pointers on where to visit, what to eat and a Zombie Apocalypse Playlist to musically narrate the Icelandic Zombie Outbreak.
Cover by renowned Icelandic photographer Oddvar and illustrations inside by famed artoonist Hugleikur Dagsson.
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“Go, go, run! Run!” Barbara thought to herself. In a jolt she let her head crane backwards for a peek and then snapped it forward again. “Slow fuckers!”
The smell of the brine as it flushed onto the black Icelandic sand was unmistakable, the smell used to be clean enough to punch you in the face. Now a smell of rot and decay polluted the crisp air. The sky was so vast over the horizon it threatened to swallow up theearth, just like the zombies upahead threatened to swallow her intestines. Barbara scowled.
Following an accident at the construction of a new Icelandic power plant, there is a short but intense burst of sulfur gone sour. Reports of a mysterious illness amongst the plant workers begin to spread as they infect friends and family through cannibalism. Now the gritty undead wander the streets of Reykjavík and a group of misfits struggle to survive in “Zombie Iceland”.
Travel Warning: This book contains a playlist of Icelandic songs for music lovers, a traditional Icelandic soup recipe, an assortment of important cultural and historical information and other fun pointers for the savvy Icelandic tourist. Oh and zombies. There are a lot of zombies.
