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From the Mouth of the Whale

English · Paperback

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Zusatztext Wildly comic and incandescent, elegant and brittle. Informationen zum Autor Sjón Klappentext WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023 Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 'A terrific read...an extraordinarily accomplished novel' Independent 'Kaleidoscopic and mesmerising, comic and poignant' TLS In this magical evocation of a vanished age, a poet and self-taught healer is banished in 1635 to a barren island off Iceland - a place darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. With only a purple sandpiper for company, Jónas Pálmason retraces his path to exile, recalling his exorcism of a walking corpse, the massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers and the deaths of three of his children. But amid the cacophony of Copenhagen he will find hope and, finally, recognition of his enlightened ideas. Zusammenfassung The highly-acclaimed novel by Iceland's internationally renowned writer Sjón - 'an extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt - in a stunning new package.

Product details

Authors Sjon, Sjón
Assisted by Victoria Cribb (Translation), Cribb Victoria (Translation)
Publisher Sceptre
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 30.11.2019
 
EAN 9781529342970
ISBN 978-1-5293-4297-0
No. of pages 272
Dimensions 128 mm x 196 mm x 17 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Sagas, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction, Icelandic and Old Norse sagas

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