Il concerto dei pesci - Halldór Laxness, Silvia Cosimini, Nicola Lecca • BookLikes (ISBN:8870911586)

Il concerto dei pesci

by: Silvia Cosimini (author) Halldór Laxness (author) Nicola Lecca (author)

Format: paperback

ISBN: 9788870911589 (8870911586)

Publish date: November 2007

Publisher: Iperborea

Pages no: 360

Edition language: Italian

Category:

Novels, Literature, European Literature, Book Club, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, Scandinavian Literature

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Reykjavik today is such an interesting place. Half spartan northern outpost, half ambitious capital of a scarcely populated but not diminutive country, the biggest (and some say only) town in Iceland welcomed your humble reviewer in style. Bygone the hectic days of the financial and real estate bubb...

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The fish can sing just like a bird,And grazes on the moorland scree,While cattle in a lowing herdRoam the rolling sea.Starting from this Icelandic paradox put in verse, Halldór Laxness weaves an enchanting tale on the outskirts of Reykjavík, in a time when the price of a Bible was equal to that of a...

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