Name: from the mouth of the whale
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Author: Sjón ; Cribb, Victoria
ISBN: 9780374159030

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Author

Sjón

Translated by

Victoria Cribb

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18.7 x 13.0 x 1.5 cm

Weight

0.16 kg.

ISBN

0374159033

ISBN13

9780374159030

Synopsis "from the mouth of the whale"

From the Mouth of the Whale is an Icelandic saga for the modern age. The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned.Sjón introduces us to Jónas Pálmason, a poet and self-taught healer, banished to a barren island for heretical conduct, as he recalls his gift for curing female maladies, his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjáfjöll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children. Pálmason's story echoes across centuries and cultures, an epic tale that makes us see the world anew.

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