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The Fish Can Sing
In Halldór Laxness’s “The Fish Can Sing,” an orphan named Álfgrímur grows up in Brekkukot, a house in Reykjavík, among a small, accepting community of misfits and eccentrics. The narrative explores the life of Álfgrímur as he considers his destiny and is impacted by the renowned Icelandic ‘world singer,’ Garðar Hólm.
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Halldór Laxness
Laxness took the Nobel in 1955, the only Icelander who has, for novels that put the saga tradition into modern peasant life. Independent People follows a sheep farmer whose insistence on owing nothing to anybody destroys his family. He converted to Catholicism in his twenties,…
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