The Whispering Muse
Winner of the Swedish Academy's Nordic Prize 2023
$32.68
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2020
Summary
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY’S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
‘Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.’ TLS
A master storyteller, Sjon weaves together Greek and Nordic myths with the legacies of the Second World War in this mesmerising novel, which reminds us that everything is capable of change.
Valdimar Haraldsson is an eccentric Icelander with dubious ideas about the relationship between fish consumption …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529342994 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529342996 |
| Author: | Sjón, Victoria Cribb |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2020 |
| Weight: | 108g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 14mm |
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Critics Review
Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch. - Times Literary Supplement
A quirky, melodic, ticklish, seamlessly-translated, lovingly-polished gem of a novel. Sjon’s work deserves space on any self-respecting bookshelf of European fiction. - David MitchellOnce again, Sjon has chosen an unusual subject, interwoven the fantastical with the ordinary, and produced a complex and strangely compelling work of fiction. - Huffington PostAn extraordinary, powerful fable - a marvel. - Alberto ManguelAbout The Author
Sjón
Born in Reykjavik in 1962, Sjon is the author of the novels The Blue Fox, The Whispering Muse, From the Mouth of the Whale, Moonstone and CoDex 1962, for which he has won several awards including the Nordic Council’s Literature Prize and the Icelandic Literary Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and his work has been translated into thirty-five languages.
In addition, Sjon has written nine poetry collections as well as four opera librettos and lyrics for various artists. He lives in Reykjavik, Iceland.
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