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Salka Valka
[Paperback - 2022]
halldor laxness
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Uk | ISBN: 9781784877606 | Pages: 560
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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 BY PHILIP ROUGHTON

About the Author

Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

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