“Sixty Kilograms of Sunlight” is a historical novel about how, at the turn of the 20th century, new times came to cold and poor Iceland. For centuries, residents of a remote fjord in the north had been eking out a miserable existence in the struggle to survive: fighting blizzards and avalanches, herding sheep and cows, going out to hunt for cod and sharks, and repairing leaking roofs of their dwellings. It seemed impossible to escape this well-worn rut of life. But one day, a school of herring entered the fjord, and then—followed by Norwegian fishermen—everything in the backwater began to move! This is not only a large, vivid novel about the history of a people, written with a sense of humor; it is also a touching story about the fate of a boy who is looking for a way to survive in this harsh world.