The highly-acclaimed novel by Iceland's internationally renowned writer Sjon - 'an extraordinary and original writer' A.S. Byatt - in a stunning new package.
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 burnt. Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Jonas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children.
From the Mouth of the Whale is a magical evocation of an enlightened mind and a vanished age.
"Every now and then a writer changes the whole map of literature inside my head. The most recent has been the Icelander Sjon, whose work is unlike anything I had read, and very exciting...I think of Icelanders as erudite, singular, tough, and uncompromising. Sjon is all these things, but he is also quicksilver, playful and surreal...[Sjon] has changed the way I see things."
A.S. Byatt, The New York Review of Books
"Sjon is the trickster that makes the world; and he is achingly brilliant...strange and wonderful, an epic made mad, made extraordinary."
Junot Diaz
"Hallucinatory, lyrical and by turn comic and tragic-an extraordinary novel."
Hari Kunzru
"Kaleidoscopic and mesmerizing, comic and poignant"
Times Literary Supplement
"Sjon's novels are brilliant collisions of history and fable, psychology and fantasy"
Chris Power, Guardian
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