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Fish Have No Feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson - ISBN: 9780857054432
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Icelandic secrets surface: love, loss, and a family’s haunting past.

Fish Have No Feet

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    384 pages

  • Release Date

    26 February 2018

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Summary

Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017

Keflavik: a town that may be the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished, and site of the U.S. military base, whose influences shaped Icelandic culture from the ‘50s to the dawning of the new millennium.

Ari - a writer and publisher - lands back in Keflavik from Copenhagen. His father is dying, and he is flooded by memories of his youth in the ‘7…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780857054432
ISBN-10:0857054430
Author:Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Philip Roughton
Publisher:Quercus Publishing
Imprint:MacLehose Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:26 February 2018
Weight:270g
Dimensions:198mm x 130mm x 28mm
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Critics Review

A wonderful, exceptional writer … A timeless storyteller - Carsen Jensen

Powerful and sparkling … Prize-winning translator Philip Roughton’s feather-light touch brings out the gleaming, fairy-tale quality of the writing, making what could be a stereotypically dark Nordic novel an impassioned and lyrical read. In Fish Have No Feet, Stefansson brings out the history of a place and its people in a way few contemporary writers ever manage. - Irish Times

Stefansson’s prose - translated with craggy eloquence by Philip Roughton - rolls and surges with oceanic splendour. - Spectator

Very powerful - Irish Times

About The Author

Jón Kalman Stefánsson

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy - Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) - and for Fish Have No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).

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