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Plot summary. The novel is set at the start of the twentieth century and deals with the orphaned boy Álfgrímur, his adoptive grandparents, and the small, tolerant community of misfits and eccentrics they gather around them at Brekkukot, their cottage in Reykjavík.
- Icelandic
- Halldór Laxness
- 1957
- Iceland
1 de ene. de 2015 · The Fish Can Sing. Halldór Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator) 3.88. 2,713 ratings363 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 poignant coming-of-age tale marked...
But the narrow horizons of Alfgrimur's idyllic childhood are challenged when he starts school and meets Iceland's most famous singer, the mysterious Garoar Holm. Garoar encourages him to aim for...
Halldor Laxness. Vintage International, 2008 - Fiction - 246 pages. The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness’s most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale...
- Halldor Laxness
- The Fish Can SingVintage International
- Jane Smiley
- Magnus Magnusson
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. It is a Bildungsroman of sorts, as he describes his childhood and adolescence, and must eventually decide on what to do with his life (and whether he can (or should) leave the comforts of the simple life ...