Already celebrated far beyond his native Iceland, the novels of Sjón arrive on waves of praise from writers, critics, and readers worldwide. Sjón has won countless international awards and earned ringing comparisons to Borges, Calvino, and Iceland’s other literary superstar, the Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness. The Whispering Muse is his 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 […]

Categories: Fantasía, Mitología, Novela Ficción • Tags: 2013, barco, Farrar, mar, maritimo, mitología, mitologia, Nórdica, Nordic, Norway, sea adventures, Sjón, Straus and Giroux