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The Fish Can Sing

The Fish Can Sing is the 1957 modern classic of Icelandic fiction from celebrated novelist Halldรณr Laxness; a tender coming-of-age story of a boy and a nation, dragged unwillingly into the modern world.Abandoned as a baby, รlfgrรญmur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavรญk with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for their fellow men that is the ethos at Brekkukot. But the narrow horizons of รlfgrรญmur’™s idyllic childhood are challenged then he starts school and meets Iceland’™s most famous singer, the mysterious Gardar Hรณlm. Gardar encourages him to aim for the ‘˜one true note’™, but how can he attain it without leaving behind the world that he loves?

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