Salka Valka, Laxness Halldór
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
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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
Dodatkowe informacje
Autorzy | Laxness Halldór |
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Tytuł | Salka Valka |
Wydawca | Vintage |
ISBN | 978-1-78487-760-6 |
EAN | 9781784877606 |
Tematyka | Literatura obcojęzyczna |