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The Fish Can Sing (Icelandic: Brekkukotsannáll) is a 1957 novel by Icelandic author Halldór Laxness, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1955.
1 de ene. de 2015 · The Fish Can Sing. Halldór Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator) 3.88. 2,763 ratings369 reviews. Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather.
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One of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner—"a beacon in twentieth-century literature" (Alice Munro, Nobel Prize-winning author of Dear Life). A...
The fish can sing by Halld{acute}or Laxness, 1902-Publication date 1967 Publisher New York, Crowell Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks Contributor
The Fish Can Sing is set in early twentieth-century Iceland, the narrator Álfgrímur describing life in the quaint backwoods of Brekkukot.
- Halldór Laxness
- The Fish Can Sing
- Novel
- 1957 (Eng. 1966; rev. 2001)
1 de abr. de 2002 · Halldor Laxness's wistfully tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjorn of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavfk.
- Halldor Laxness
The Fish Can Sing. Halldór Laxness. Harvill, 2001 - Fiction - 246 pages. *BY THE WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE*. 'Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic...
