# Salka Valka

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- Book: [Salka Valka](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness/salka-valka) ([Salka Valka.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness/salka-valka.md))
- Authors: [Halldór Laxness](https://www.bookquiver.com/halldor-laxness)
- Publisher: vintage_classics
- Translated by: Philip Roughton
- ISBN: 978-17-8487-760-6
- Pages: 560
- Published: 2022-02-10
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldór Laxness's masterpiece Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her daughter, the young but gutsy Salka Valka. The two must forge a life in this remote place, where everyone is at the mercy of a single wealthy merchant, and where everything revolves around fish. After her mother's tragic death, Salka grows into a fiercely independent-minded adult - cutting off her hair, educating herself and becoming an advocate for the town's working class. A coming-of-age story, a feminist tale, a lament for Iceland's poor - this is the funny, tender, epic story of Salka Valka. 'Laxness is a poet who writes to the edges of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot' Daily Telegraph TRANSLATED BY PHILIP ROUGHTON