Fish Can Sing
$25.11
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2001
Summary
A story about growing up, full of the strangeness, humour and beauty of Iceland.
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 m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781860469343 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1860469345 |
| Author: | Halldór Laxness |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Harvill Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2001 |
| Weight: | 192g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 18mm |
| Series: | Panther S. |
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Critics Review
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 *
About The Author
Halldór Laxness
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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