Ingqele inako ukukhenkceza ixesha kwindawo efana ne-Iceland, esele ibunjwe yindalo yayo njengesiqithi esixhonywe kuMntla weAtlantiki, umda phakathi kweYurophu neMelika. Yintoni eye yaba yingozi ekhethekileyo yejografi ukubalisa okuqhelekileyo ngokukodwa kwihlabathi liphela elithathela ingqalelo engaqhelekanga, ebandayo kodwa engaqhelekanga, yonke into enokwenzeka kuloo ndawo yehlobo lokukhanya okungapheliyo kunye nobusika obungena ebumnyameni.
Abanye ababhali bangoku base-Icelandic ezifana Arnaldur Indriðason bathatha ithuba lemeko ukuze bandise loo noir yaseScandinavia njenge "kufutshane" yangoku yoncwadi. Kodwa kwimeko ye Jon Kalman Stefansson Iimpawu ezibalisayo zibonakala zishukuma kumilando emitsha. Ngenxa yokuba kukho umlingo omninzi umahluko phakathi kwengqele kunye nomgama ovela kwihlabathi kunye nenzondelelo yomntu eyenza indlela yayo emkhenkceni. Kwaye kuhlala kunomdla ukufumanisa ngobunzulu obungakumbi ukuba ubukho bokwenene benziwe baba yinkcazo-ntetho yoncwadi, inoveli enezinto ezininzi eziqinisekileyo ezisondeza idiosyncrasies yeendawo ezikude.
Yakhiwe ngeebrushstrokes ezimfutshane, Ukukhanya kwehlobo, kwaye emva koko ebusuku ibonisa ngendlela engaqhelekanga nenomtsalane uluntu oluncinane kunxweme lwaseIceland olukude nesiphithiphithi sehlabathi, kodwa lungqongwe yindalo enyanzelisa isingqi novakalelo olukhethekileyo kubo. Kulapho, apho kubonakala ngathi iintsuku ziphindaphindwa kwaye ubusika bonke bunokuqukunjelwa kwikhadi leposi, inkanuko, iminqweno eyimfihlo, uvuyo kunye nesizungu zidibanisa imini nobusuku, ukwenzela ukuba imihla ngemihla ihambisane nokungaqhelekanga.
Ngoburharha nokuthantamisa iintsizi zomntu, uStefánsson uzintywilisela kuthotho lwee-dichotomies eziphawula ubomi bethu: ubunamhlanje ngokuchasene nesithethe, imfihlakalo xa ithelekiswa nengqiqo, kunye nekamva elichasene nethuba.
Ungayithenga ngoku inoveli «Ukukhanya kwehlobo, kwaye emva koko ebusuku«, nguJon Kalman Stefansson, apha:
