Hjartsláttur facts for kids

Hjartsláttur ('heart-beat') is the fourth novel for young people by Ragnheiður Gestsdóttir. It was published in 2009 in Reykjavík by Mál og menning.

Form

The novel is a third-person narrative. Each chapter is from the perspective of a particular character, and takes its title from that character's name. Occasionally the same event is narrated twice from different characters' perspectives, illuminating the way in which the same event can be understood differently by different people.

The novel's characters explicitly draw inspiration from the story of Tristan and Isolde and the novel's plot bears some resemblance to this medieval romance.