Salka Valka
A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS' TALE OF POVERTY AND GREED
Set at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles of a penniless woman, Sigurlína, and her daughter, Salka Valka. They must eke out an existence in a small, isolated world where everyone is controlled by a single wealthy merchant, and where everything in life revolves around fish.
Follow Salka's development from a precocious child to a fiercely independent-minded adult. Her romantic spirit is challenged when she starts a relationship with a firebrand idealist, Arnaldur. His fights against the trading company for human rights reflect the contemporary clash of social ideals in Iceland.
- Author
- Halldór Laxness
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 496
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781784877606
- Release date
- 2022
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