"Achingly brilliant, an epic made mad, made extraordinary."ะ ะะ โะฒะัJunot Dะ โะยญaz "Hallucinatory, lyrical, by turns comic and tragic, this extraordinary novel should make Sjรณn an international name. His evocation of seventeenth century Iceland through the eyes of a man born before his time has stuck
From the Mouth of the Whale
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- Book ID
- 107342891
- Publisher
- Perseus Books Group
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 110 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781846591013
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*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. Sjรณn introduces us to
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