Fish Can Sing

Fish Can Sing
Halldor Laxness
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Paperback
h198 x 129mm - 256pg
28 Sep 2001 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781860469343
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A childhood in Iceland is the background to this powerful and evocative tale. Halldor Laxness' wistfully tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjom of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik. It evokes his boyhood and youth, spent at his grandparents' home in the early years of the twentieth century, an hospitable place where dignified understatement was the norm and where everything from a lumpfish to a bible had a fixed price which never changed.
Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: it is not possible to be unimpressed * Daily Telegraph * This weird and wonderful novel, about the price you pay for ' the one true note' , is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and unforgettable voice * Nicholas Shakespeare * It is a novel (a world) that transmits something of the wonder of life, its strangeness, its goodness, ocassions for stubbornness, and the stoicism of people - people everywhere * Murray Bail * Laxness' s view of a child' s bounded universe has humour and a light touch * Guardian *
HALLD R LAXNESS (1902-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was 17. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth century, his work was translated into more than 30 languages. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781860469343
Published: 28 Sep 2001
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: The Harvill Press
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 129mm
Spine: 16mm
Weight: 181g
Pages: 256

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