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From the mouth of the whale

Sjon, VictoriaCribb, Victoria(Translated by)
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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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Telegram Books
1846590833 / 9781846590832
Paperback / softback
01/05/2011
United Kingdom
English
Historic novels
275 p.
20 cm
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