Fish have no feet
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, 1963-2018
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Keflavik: a town that has been called the darkest place in Iceland, surrounded by black lava fields, hemmed in by a sea that may not be fished. Its livelihood depends entirely on a U.S. military base. It is to Keflavik that Ari - a writer and publisher - returns from Copenhagen at the behest of his dying father, two years after walking out on his wife and children. He is beset by memories of his youth, spent or misspent listening to Pink Floyd and the Beatles, fraternising with American servicemen and discovering girls. There is one girl in particular he could never forget - her fate has stayed with him all his life. Lost in grief and nostalgia, he is also caught up in the story of how his grandparents fell in love in Nordfjordur on the eastern coast, a fishing village a world away from modern Keflavik, at time when the old ways still held sway.
Main title:
Fish have no feet / Jón Kalman Stefánsson ; translated by Philip Roughton.
Author:
Jón Kalman Stefánsson, 1963-, authorRoughton, Philip, translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2018.
Collation:
352 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Translated from the Icelandic.
ISBN:
9780857054432 (pbk. :)
Dewey class:
839.6935
Language:
EnglishIcelandic
BRN:
1870244