“Ice” (1967) is the main novel by British writer Anna Kavan (1901–1968), during her lifetime compared to Virginia Woolf and called “Kafka’s sister.” Critics consider Kavan the founder of the slipstream genre—fantastical-imagination literature, where cause-and-effect relations are kept on a hair’s breadth, and sharpened feelings to the limit are incomparably more important than logic. In her novels, a quite realistic depiction suddenly ripples, and unexpected images and scenes surface from the depths of the subconscious.