Whispering Muse
Autor Sjónen Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 mai 2014
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Sjon's novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Diaz, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls "The Whispering Muse ""an extraordinary, powerful fable a marvel." "The Whispering Muse "is Sjon's masterpiece so far.
The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the "Argo" on the Argonauts' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular as to seem possessed."
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780374534769
ISBN-10: 0374534764
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: St. Martins Press-3pl
ISBN-10: 0374534764
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 127 x 191 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.19 kg
Editura: St. Martins Press-3pl
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Sjón; Translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
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WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
'Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.' TLS
A master storyteller, Sjón weaves together Greek and Nordic myths with the legacies of the Second World War in this mesmerising novel, which reminds us that everything is capable of change.
Valdimar Haraldsson is an eccentric Icelander with dubious ideas about the relationship between fish consumption and Nordic superiority. To his delight, in the spring of 1949, he is invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its voyage to the Black Sea.
He is less delighted with the lack of fish on the menu. Worse, his fellow travellers show no interest in his 'Fish and Culture' lecture. They prefer the enthralling tales of the second mate, Caeneus, who every evening regales them with his adventures aboard the Argo, on Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece.
WINNER OF THE SWEDISH ACADEMY'S NORDIC PRIZE 2023
'Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.' TLS
A master storyteller, Sjón weaves together Greek and Nordic myths with the legacies of the Second World War in this mesmerising novel, which reminds us that everything is capable of change.
Valdimar Haraldsson is an eccentric Icelander with dubious ideas about the relationship between fish consumption and Nordic superiority. To his delight, in the spring of 1949, he is invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its voyage to the Black Sea.
He is less delighted with the lack of fish on the menu. Worse, his fellow travellers show no interest in his 'Fish and Culture' lecture. They prefer the enthralling tales of the second mate, Caeneus, who every evening regales them with his adventures aboard the Argo, on Jason's legendary quest for the Golden Fleece.
Recenzii
Funny, strange, provoking and disturbing; darkness with a light touch.
'Sjón pulls off the difficult task of creating an unboring bore with panache. Not only that, he allows a twist at the end that changes our perspective...He has changed the way I see things.'
'Sublime...A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic.'
A quirky, melodic, ticklish, seamlessly-translated, lovingly-polished gem of a novel. Sjón's work deserves space on any self-respecting bookshelf of European fiction.
Once again, Sjón has chosen an unusual subject, interwoven the fantastical with the ordinary, and produced a complex and strangely compelling work of fiction.
An extraordinary, powerful fable - a marvel.
'Sjón pulls off the difficult task of creating an unboring bore with panache. Not only that, he allows a twist at the end that changes our perspective...He has changed the way I see things.'
'Sublime...A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic.'
A quirky, melodic, ticklish, seamlessly-translated, lovingly-polished gem of a novel. Sjón's work deserves space on any self-respecting bookshelf of European fiction.
Once again, Sjón has chosen an unusual subject, interwoven the fantastical with the ordinary, and produced a complex and strangely compelling work of fiction.
An extraordinary, powerful fable - a marvel.