The Fish Can Sing - Vintage International - Halldor Laxness - Books - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - 9780307386052 - February 19, 2008
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The Fish Can Sing - Vintage International Reprint edition

The Fish Can Sing is one of Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness?s most beloved novels, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with his peculiar blend of light irony and dark humor.

The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simple turf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only of becoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland's biggest celebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm?s international fame is a source of tremendous pride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing. A mysterious man who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoring countrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur?s budding musical talent and urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimur discovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge of finding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.


272 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released February 19, 2008
ISBN13 9780307386052
Publishers Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages 272
Dimensions 202 × 132 × 18 mm   ·   204 g
Language English  
Contributor Jane Smiley

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