![]() ![]() The country's electricity comes almost entirely from hydroelectric and geothermal sources. The figures show that hydropower accounts for 70% of Iceland's electricity supply, and the importance of this is clear.Īnd for that matter, there is not a single thermal or nuclear power station in Iceland. It may sound a bit far-fetched to bring this up here, but it seems to me that it is an illustration of the importance of water resource management to Iceland's energy planning. She is a researcher, and a water specialist at the Ministry for Energy Affairs. In fact, she reappears at the end of the story and her name is revealed to be "Sunna". The woman who finds the body has nothing to do with the rest of the story, but for some reason I find the character of this lonely woman fascinating. I especially love this introduction of the book to the extent that I have read this part several times. The story begins when a woman discovers a skeleton corpse at the bottom of the lake, which has suddenly dried up due to tectonic activity. The original title, Kleifarvatn, (“The Man in the lake, Mizuumi no otoko” Japanese title) is the name of a real lake outside of Reykjavik. Before I arrived in Iceland as Ambassador, this book was recommended to me and I was fortunate enough to have a chance to read it. ![]() ![]() The book was translated into Japanese by Ms.Yumiko Yanagisawa, a translator living in Sweden, and published in Japan in 2017 by Tokyo Sogensha. It is a mystery novel written in 2004 by Mr.Arnaldur Indridason, one of the Iceland’s most beloved authors. ![]()
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