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From the Mouth of the Whale ebok
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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award'A terrific read...an extraordinarily accomplished novel' Independent'Kaleidoscopic and mesmerising, comic and poignant' TLSIn this magical evocation of a vanished age, a poet and self-taught healer is banished in 1635 to a barren island off Iceland - a place darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. With only a purple sandpiper for company…
Undertittel
Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023
Forlag
Sceptre
Utgitt
13 mars 2020
Sjanger
Skjønnlitteratur, Romaner
Språk
English
Format
epub
DRM-beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781529342987
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
'A terrific read...an extraordinarily accomplished novel' Independent
'Kaleidoscopic and mesmerising, comic and poignant' TLS
In this magical evocation of a vanished age, a poet and self-taught healer is banished in 1635 to a barren island off Iceland - a place darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty.
With only a purple sandpiper for company, Jónas Pálmason retraces his path to exile, recalling his exorcism of a walking corpse, the massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers and the deaths of three of his children.
But amid the cacophony of Copenhagen he will find hope and, finally, recognition of his enlightened ideas.
Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
'A terrific read...an extraordinarily accomplished novel' Independent
'Kaleidoscopic and mesmerising, comic and poignant' TLS
In this magical evocation of a vanished age, a poet and self-taught healer is banished in 1635 to a barren island off Iceland - a place darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty.
With only a purple sandpiper for company, Jónas Pálmason retraces his path to exile, recalling his exorcism of a walking corpse, the massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers and the deaths of three of his children.
But amid the cacophony of Copenhagen he will find hope and, finally, recognition of his enlightened ideas.