Glyn Joness translation captures the enthusiasm, charm and humour
of a great writers first novel. Windswept Dawn is a Faeroese Under
the Milk Wood revealing the whole personality of a small closely
knit community. William Heinesen brings to life a whole host of
vivid, larger than life character from the sectarian preacher,
Reinhold Vaag, the drunken, philosophising solicitor Morberg, the
well-meaning voyeur Vitus, to the firebrand shopkeeper Landrus and
the bizarre teacher Balduin who is intent on reaching spiritual
perfection. We see the large cast of characters battling against
the elements, the hostile sea and the rough terrain while the
Lutherans and the Plymouth Brethren fight for their souls in a
changing world. The main character in the novel is the Faroes
Island themselves. William Heinesen is generally considered to be
one of the greatest if not the greatest Scandinavian novelist of
the twentieth century.
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