"Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic ."
--"The Wall Street Journal
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Sjon's novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of
literary luminaries: Junot Diaz, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari
Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls "The Whispering Muse ""an
extraordinary, powerful fable--a marvel." "The Whispering Muse "is
Sjon's masterpiece so far.
The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander
with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on
Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be
invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea.
Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the
second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow
travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the
"Argo" on the Argonauts' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel
that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth
and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular
as to seem possessed.
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