Salka Valka
of Halldór Laxness, F.H. Lyon (Translator)
Description
A novel of Iceland -- a queer, repellant sort of Iceland at that. The story of a prostitute and her child, victim of her passions, her selfishness, and her ill-fame -- and of their attempt to find a place for themselves in a new community which is unfriendly, critical, and unforgiving. Chiefly the story of the daughter -- her obsessions with and revulsions from sex, and her relations with two men, the one by morbid fascination and hate and love of a queer sort -- the other by appeal to her better nature. Glimpses of effects of industrial unrest in a distant part of the world. A difficult style -- not easy reading. (Kirkus review)
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Book Details
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 432 pages
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Publication Date June 28th 1963
- First Publication 11/06/31
- Language English
- ISBN 9780048230300
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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