From the Mouth of the Whale
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From the Mouth of the Whale is an Icelandic saga for the modern age. 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 burned.
Sj n introduces us to J nas P lmason, a poet and self-taught healer, banished to a barren island for heretical conduct, as he recalls his gift for curing female maladies, his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snj fj ll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children. P lmason's story echoes across centuries and cultures, an epic tale that makes us see the world anew.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Published: 04/30/2013
ISBN: 9780374159030
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.38h x 5.10w x 0.61d
Review Citations: New York Review of Books 10/10/3013 pg. 12