ISBN: 9780374534769

"Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic ."" -The Wall Street JournalSjón''s novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, D… Meer...

"Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic ."" -The Wall Street JournalSjón''s novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse ""an extraordinary, powerful fable-a marvel."" The Whispering Muse is Sjón''s 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 fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on the Argonauts'' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular as to seem possessed. | The Whispering Muse by Sjón Sjón Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Fiction > Literary P10140, Sjón Sjón<

ISBN: 9780374534769

Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic . —The Wall Street JournalSjón's novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Juno… Meer...

Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic . —The Wall Street JournalSjón's novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse an extraordinary, powerful fable—a marvel. The Whispering Muse is Sjón's 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 fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on the Argonauts' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular as to seem possessed. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Fiction>Fiction>Literary Fict, Farrar, Straus and Giroux Core >1<

ISBN: 9780374534769

"Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic ."" -The Wall Street JournalSjón''s novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, Dav… Meer...

"Sublime . . . A work of coy humor and shape-shifting magic ."" -The Wall Street JournalSjón''s novels have been championed by a veritable pantheon of literary luminaries: Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, A. S. Byatt, Hari Kunzru, and Alberto Manguel, who calls The Whispering Muse ""an extraordinary, powerful fable-a marvel."" The Whispering Muse is Sjón''s 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 fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travelers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on the Argonauts'' quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. What unfolds is a slender, brilliant, always entertaining novel that evokes Borges and Calvino as it weaves together tales of myth and antiquity with the modern world in a literary voice so singular as to seem possessed. | The Whispering Muse by Sjón Sjón Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Fiction > Literary P10140, Sjón Sjón<