From the Mouth of the Whale
Pocketbok. Telegram . 1st uppl. 2012.
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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.
Jónas Pálmason, 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, Jónas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjöll 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.
'Achingly brilliant — an epic made mad, made extraordinary'
JUNOT DÍAZ
SJÓN was born in Reykjavik in 1962. He won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, the equivalent of the Man Booker Prize, for The Blue Fox, which was also longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2009. Sjón was nominated for an Oscar for the song lyrics he wrote for Björk in the film Dancer in the Dark.
His work has been translated into twenty-two languages.
