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The Tower at the Edge of the World is William Heinesen's last novel written when he was 76, and is the summation of all of his work. William Heinesen describes The Tower at the Edge of the World as a poetic mosaic novel about earliest childhood. 'In the days when the earth was not yet round but had a beginning and an end, a splendid tower could be seen at the furthermost edge of the world. During the daytime an endless procession of clouds floated slowly past out there in the void under the eye of the sun. At night, the tower shone out and competed with the Northern Lights and the stars over the void, for it was a tower of light...'

William Heinesen (1900-1991) was born in Torshavn in the Faroe Islands, the son of a Danish mother and Faroese father, and was equally at home in both languages. Although he spent most of his life in the Faroe Islands he chose to write in Danish as he felt it offered him greater inventive freedom. Although internationally known as a poet and a novelist he made his living as an artist. His paintings range from large-scale murals in public buildings, through oil to pen sketches, caricatures and collages. It is Dedalus's intention to make available all of William Heinesen's 7 novels in English. He is generally considered as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Nordic author of the twentieth century.