"This is a remarkable achievement and will hopefully lead to a revival of interest in an oft-overlooked literary genius." - Publishers Weekly, starred review A fresh translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halld r Laxness's modernist masterpiece, Salka Valka. A feminist coming of age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town, Salka Valka is a novel of epic proportions, living and breathing with its expansive cast of characters, filled with tenderness, humor, and remarkable pathos. On a mid-winter night, an eleven-year-old Salv r and her unmarried mother Sigurl na disembark at the remote, run-down fishing village of seyri, where life is "lived in fish and consists of fish." The two women struggle to make their way amidst...
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