Salka Valka
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Internetová cena:
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263,00 Kč 
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Běžná cena:
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329,00 Kč |
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| Autor: |
Halldór Laxness
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| Jazyk: |
anglicky |
| Vazba: |
měkká |
| Počet stran: |
560 |
| Formát: |
12,9 x 19,8 cm |
| ISBN/EAN: |
9781784877606 |
| Překladatel: |
Philip Roughton |
| Nakladatel: |
Vintage Classics |
| Rok vydání: |
2022 |
| Edice: |
Současná beletrie
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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.
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