Whispering Muse

Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic . --The Wall Street JournalSj...
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Author: Sjón
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Language: English
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Whispering Muse by Sjón

Whispering Muse

€9,24

Whispering Muse

€9,24
Author: Sjón
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic . --The Wall Street Journal

Sj n's novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot D az, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse an extraordinary, powerful fable--a marvel. The Whispering Muse is Sj n's masterpiece so far.
The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilization, has had the extraordinary good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on the Argonauts' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece.
What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular as to seem possessed.



Author: Sjón
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 05/06/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.29lbs
Size: 7.26h x 5.01w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780374534769

About the Author

Sjón was born in Reykjavik in 1962. He is an award-winning novelist, poet, and playwright, and his novels have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is the president of the Icelandic PEN Centre and the chairman of the board of Reykjavik UNESCO City of Literature. Also a lyricist, he has written songs for Björk, including for her most recent project, Biophilia, and was nominated for an Oscar for the lyrics he cowrote (with Lars von Trier) for Dancer in the Dark. He lives in Reykjavik.




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