Fish Have No Feet - Couverture souple

Kalman Stefánsson, Jón

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0857054430 ISBN 13 : 9780857054432

Editeur : MacLehose Press, 2018

Synopsis

An poetic, elemental yet modern Icelandic family saga spanning the whole of Iceland's 20th century history, by the country's most distinguished and distinctive contemporary writer

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jón Kalman Stefánsson's novels have been nominated three times for the Nordic Council Prize for Literature and his novel Summer Light, and then Comes the Night received the Icelandic Prize for Literature in 2005. In 2011 he was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Award. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy - Heaven and Hell, The Sorrow of Angels (longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize) and The Heart of Man (winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize) - and for Fish Have No Feet (longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2017).

Philip Roughton is a scholar of Old Norse and medieval literature and an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature, having translated works by numerous writers including Halldór Laxness. He was the winner of the Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize for his translation of Jón Kalman Stefánsson's The Heart of Man, and shortlisted for the same prize for About the Size of the Universe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: MacLehose Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0857054430
• ISBN 13: 9780857054432
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible