From the mouth of the whale
The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jona Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical condu...
| Main Author: | Sjón, 1962- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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NY:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2008.
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