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The Fish Can Sing - Community Reviews back

by Halldór Laxness
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The Library of Babel
The Library of Babel rated it 11 years ago
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...
Emamemi
Emamemi rated it 11 years ago
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...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it 13 years ago
5* from Overbylass
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