Fish Can Sing
- Published: 1 July 2010
- ISBN: 9781407092812
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 256
Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: it is not possible to be unimpressed
Daily Telegraph
This weird and wonderful novel, about the price you pay for 'the one true note', is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and unforgettable voice
Nicholas Shakespeare
It is a novel (a world) that transmits something of the wonder of life, its strangeness, its goodness, ocassions for stubbornness, and the stoicism of people - people everywhere
Murray Bail
Laxness's view of a child's bounded universe has humour and a light touch
Guardian
Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows us a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: it is not possible to be unimpressed
Daily Telegraph
This weird and wonderful novel, about the price you pay for 'the one true note', is Laxness at his best: a reminder of the mad hilarity of the Icelandic sensibility. An endearing and unforgettable voice
Nicholas Shakespeare
It is a novel (a world) that transmits something of the wonder of life, its strangeness, its goodness, ocassions for stubbornness, and the stoicism of people - people everywhere
Murray Bail
Laxness's view of a child's bounded universe has humour and a light touch
Guardian