Salka Valka
"On a winter night, an eleven-year-old Salvör and her unmarried mother Sigurlína disembark at the remote, run-down fishing village of Óseyri, where life is "lived in fish and consists of fish." The two struggle to make their way amidst the rough, salt-worn men of the town. After Sigurlína's unti...
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Archipelago Books,
2022.
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| 008 | nyu 000 1 eng d | ||
| 020 | |a 9781953861245 | ||
| 041 | 1 | |a eng |h ice | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Halldór Laxness, |d 1902-1998. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Salka Valka / |c Halldor Laxness ; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Archipelago Books, |c 2022. | ||
| 300 | |a 624 pages | ||
| 500 | |a "First published as Salka Valka in two volumes-"--title page | ||
| 520 | 0 | |a "On a winter night, an eleven-year-old Salvör and her unmarried mother Sigurlína disembark at the remote, run-down fishing village of Óseyri, where life is "lived in fish and consists of fish." The two struggle to make their way amidst the rough, salt-worn men of the town. After Sigurlína's untimely death, Salvör pays for her funeral and walks home alone, precipitating her coming of age as a daring, strong-willed young woman who chops off her hair, earns her own wages, educates herself through political and philosophical texts, and soon becomes an advocate for the town's working class, organizing a local chapter of the seamen's union. A feminist coming-of-age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town, Salka Valka is a novel of epic proportions, living and breathing with its vibrant cast of characters, filled with tenderness, humor, and remarkable pathos"-- Provided by publisher | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Fishing villages |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mothers and daughters |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Self-actualization (Psychology) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Social classes |v Fiction. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Roughton, Philip. | |
| 949 | |a Schlow |b SAPAB |c HalldØr Laxness |d o |e 39635104567993 |f 764961 |g loc |j 02/14/2024 | ||
| 999 | |a 487820 | ||
