Fish Can Sing: Halldór Laxness - Softcover

Laxness, Halldór

 
9781860469343: Fish Can Sing: Halldór Laxness
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1860469345 ISBN 13: 9781860469343
Verlag: Vintage Classics, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

*BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE*

'Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and unforgettable voice' Nicholas Shakespeare

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for their fellow men that is the ethos at the Brekkukot. But the narrow horizons of Alfgrimur's idyllic childhood are challenged when he starts school and meets Iceland's most famous singer, the mysterious Garoar Holm. Garoar encourages him to aim for the 'one true note', but how can he attain it without leaving behind the world that he loves?

'It is a novel (a world) that transmits something of the wonder of life' Murray Bail

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

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Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. But the narrow horizons of Alfgrimur's idyllic childhood are challenged when he starts school and meets Iceland's most famous singer, the mysterious Garoar Holm.

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Verlag
Vintage Classics
Erscheinungsdatum
2001
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1860469345
ISBN 13 
9781860469343
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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