Salka Valka

A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS' TALE OF POVERTY AND GREEDSet at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles of a penniless woman, Sigurlína, and her daughter, Salka Valka.

About the author

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.

Summary

A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS' TALE OF POVERTY AND GREEDSet at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles of a penniless woman, Sigurlína, and her daughter, Salka Valka.

Product details

• Authors: Haldor Laxness, Halldor Laxness, Halldór Laxness
• Assisted by: Philip Roughton (Translation), Roughton Philip (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 13.01.2022
• EAN: 9781784877606
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-760-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 33 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Sea Stories, Iceland, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place, FICTION / World Literature / Europe (General), Classic fiction: general and literary