Salka Valka
$37.15
- Paperback
560 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2022
Summary
Laxness described Salka Valka as being about ‘how a poor individual in a little village lives and dies with the trading company on the one hand and the Salvation Army on the other.’
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, wher…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877606 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877603 |
| Author: | Halldór Laxness, Philip Roughton |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 560 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 398g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 37mm |
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Critics Review
Laxness was a genius
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
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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