Vignettes II entices the reader along on a magical journey. With an eye for accuracy, Ármann Reynisson delights the imagination and provides flashes of insights into human nature that are sometimes sensitive and at other times candid and daring. It is a journey that takes us to Iceland and beyond, but one that constantly opens new vistas into the unfamiliar. The stories lead the reader on from one event to another with a sense of unity in variation until they find echoes in our own experience. Sometimes fewer words can create the clearest image. The shortest story can make the boldest point. These vignettes are both easily visualised portraits, or like short plays that beg to be read out loud