From the Mouth of the Whale

Awards:   Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012 Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012. Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize 2013
Author:   Victoria Sjon ,  Victoria Cribb
Publisher:   Saqi Books
ISBN:  

9781846590832


Pages:   275
Publication Date:   01 May 2011
Format:   Paperback
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From the Mouth of the Whale


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Awards

  • Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012
  • Long-listed for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2012.
  • Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize 2013

Overview

The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoell coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children. From the Mouth of the Whale is a magical evocation of an enlightened mind and a vanished age.

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Author:   Victoria Sjon ,  Victoria Cribb
Publisher:   Saqi Books
Imprint:   Telegram Books
Dimensions:   Width: 13.00cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 20.00cm
Weight:   0.249kg
ISBN:  

9781846590832


ISBN 10:   1846590833
Pages:   275
Publication Date:   01 May 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

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Praise for The Blue Fox 978-1-84659-037-5 'The Blue Fox describes its world with brilliant, precise, concrete colour and detail, whilst at the same time making things and people mysterious and ungraspable - The novel is a parable, comic and lyrical, about the nature of things.' A. S. Byatt 'In this beautiful, tiny book, Sjon has produced the literary equivalent of a snowflake.' Sarah Hesketh, Ready Steady Book


Author Information

Sjon was born in Reykjavik in 1962. He won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize (the equivalent of the Man Booker Prize) for The Blue Fox, which was also longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2009. Sjon was nominated for an Oscar for his lyrics in the Lars von Trier film Dancer in the Dark,and has been working on Bjork's current musical project, Biophilia. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages.

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