Halldor Laxness

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Salka Valka

Beschreibung

A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS' TALE OF POVERTY AND GREEDSet at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles of a penniless woman, Sigurlà na, and her daughter, Salka Valka.

Autor

Halldór Laxness (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. Philip Roughton (Translator) Philip Roughton was born in the US and now lives in Iceland. He is an award-winning translator of modern Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous Icelandic writers, including the Nobel prize-winning author Halldór Laxness.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 130mm x 45mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9781784877606
• ISBN-10: 1784877603
• Artikelnr.: 62846709