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Salka Valka
- Title
- Salka Valka / by Halldór Laxness ; translated by Philip Roughton.
- Author
- Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2022.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Roughton, Philip
- Description
- 624 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- "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"--
- Uniform Title
- Salka Valka. English
- Alternative Title
- Salka Valka.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Novels.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Note
- First published by Útgefandi as Salka Valka, 1931-1932.
- Translated from the Icelandic.
- Call Number
- JFC 23-7
- ISBN
- 9781953861245
- 1953861245
- LCCN
- 2021052779
- OCLC
- 1256627579
- Author
- Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998, author.
- Title
- Salka Valka / by Halldór Laxness ; translated by Philip Roughton.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2022.
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Added Author
- Roughton, Philip, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Halldór Laxness, 1902-1998. Salka valka First Archipelago Books edition. Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2022 9781953861252 (DLC) 2021052780
- Research Call Number
- JFC 23-7