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Ernakulam Public Library Fiction | Fiction | F LAX/SA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 2024-07-11 | E199143 |
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| F LAW/WH WHITE PEACOCK | F LAW/WO WOMAN WHO RODE AWAY | F LAX/IN INDEPENT PEOPLE | F LAX/SA SALKA VALKA | F LAX/WA WAYWARD HEROES | F LAY/AN ANGELS DO CRY | F LEA/IL ILLUSIONS |
A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's masterpiece
Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her daughter, the young but gutsy Salka Valka. The two must forge a life in this remote place, where everyone is at the mercy of a single wealthy merchant, and where everything revolves around fish.
After her mother's tragic death, Salka grows into a fiercely independent-minded adult - cutting off her hair, educating herself and becoming an advocate for the town's working class. A coming-of-age story, a feminist tale, a lament for Iceland's poor - this is the funny, tender, epic story of Salka Valka.
'Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot' Daily Telegraph
Translated from Icelandic by Philip Roughton.
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