Fish Can Sing (Paperback, Rev. English Ed)

A welcome reissue of the 1955 Nobel laureate's 1957 novel about an abandoned boy's embattled growth to manhood in an Icelandic village, complicated by his kinship with generations of fisherfolk and his fixation on an internationally famous opera singer. This lively bildungsroman - which dramatizes with considerable variety and humor the ideal of community and the phenomenon of a "backward" country's mixed feelings toward the outside world and "progress" - is enriched by a bountiful gallery of sharply drawn eccentric characters. Altogether, one of this great writer's most unusual and attractive books. (Kirkus Reviews)

A childhood in Iceland is the background to this powerful and evocative tale. Halldor Laxness' wistfully tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjom of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik. It evokes his boyhood and youth, spent at his grandparents' home in the early years of the twentieth century, an hospitable place where dignified understatement was the norm and where everything from a lumpfish to a bible had a fixed price which never changed.

General

Imprint:	The Harvill Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2001
Authors:	Halldor Laxness
Dimensions:	197 x 131 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	246
Edition:	Rev. English Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-86046-934-3
Languages:	English
Subtitles:	Icelandic
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-86046-934-5
Barcode:	9781860469343

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