Salka Valka

Halldór Laxness

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A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's masterpiece

Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her daughter, the young but gutsy Salka Valka. The two must forge a life in this remote place, where everyone is at the mercy of a single wealthy merchant, and where everything revolves around fish.

After her mother's tragic death, Salka grows into a fiercely independent-minded adult - cutting off her hair, educating herself and becoming an advocate for the town's working class. A coming-of-age story, a feminist tale, a lament for Iceland's poor - this is the funny, tender, epic story of Salka Valka.

'Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot' Daily Telegraph

TRANSLATED BY PHILIP ROUGHTON

Review

Laxness was a genius ― New York Review of Books

Sprinkled throughout is Icelandic folk wisdom, dark humor, fatalism and a strong sense of the absurd... A tremendous book ― Laxness in Translation

Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot ― Daily Telegraph

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.

Podrobnosti

Autor	Halldór Laxness
Vydavatel	Vintage Classics
Jazyk	anglicky
Vazba	měkká
Počet stran	560
Formát	12,9 × 19,8 cm
EAN	9781784877606
Překladatel	Philip Roughton
Rok vydání	2022
Edice	Klasická beletrie Překladová beletrie Současná beletrie