The Fish Can Sing

Informationen zum 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. Klappentext Evocative story of childhood and youth, set in Iceland in the early part of the century. "Weird and wonderful" Nicholas Shakespeare. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Halldor Laxness, Halldór Laxness
• Assisted by: Magnus Magnusson (Translation)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.09.2001
• EAN: 9781860469343
• ISBN: 978-1-86046-934-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, Iceland, Fiction in translation, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Sense of place