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The Fish Can Sing by Halldor Laxness (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Signed By
- NA
- Signed
- No
- Book Series
- Vintage International Ser.
- Ex Libris
- No
- Narrative Type
- Fiction
- Original Language
- Icelandic
- Intended Audience
- Adults, Young Adults
- Inscribed
- No
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- Personalize
- No
- Type
- Novel
- Literary Movement
- Realism, Post-Modernism, Modernism
- Era
- 2000s
- Personalized
- No
- Features
- Unabridged
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- ISBN
- 9780307386052
- Book Title
- Fish Can Sing
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Humorous / Black Humor, Small Town & Rural, Literary, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 8.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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One of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner--"a beacon in twentieth-century literature" (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life ). A poignant coming-of-age tale marked with the peculiar Icelandic blend of light irony and dark humor. - With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres . The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only of becoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland's biggest celebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm's international fame is a source of tremendous pride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing. A mysterious man who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoring countrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur's budding musical talent and urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimur discovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge of finding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307386058
ISBN-13
9780307386052
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60745616
Product Key Features
Book Title
Fish Can Sing
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Humorous / Black Humor, Small Town & Rural, Literary, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2008
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8.4 Oz
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Reviews
"This weird and wonderful novel is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility." --Nicholas Shakespeare "Enchanting . . . .This novel is a true pleasure." --"The Independent" (London) "Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." --Alice Munro, "This weird and wonderful novel is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility." -Nicholas Shakespeare "Enchanting . . . .This novel is a true pleasure." -The Independent(London) "Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." -Alice Munro, "This weird and wonderful novel is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility." -Nicholas Shakespeare "Enchanting . . . .This novel is a true pleasure." - The Independent (London) "Laxness is a beacon in twentieth-century literature, a writer of splendid originality, wit, and feeling." -Alice Munro
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
839.6/934
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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