Book
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Salka Valka
Call Number
- FICTION HALL (CEN)
Edition
First Archipelago Books edition.
Publication Information
Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2022.
Physical Description
624 pages ; 18 cm
Uniform Title
Summary
"On a winter night, an eleven-year-old Salvör and her unmarried mother Sigurlína disembark at the remote, run-down fishing village of Óseyri, where life is 'lived in fish and consists of fish.' The two struggle to make their way amidst the rough, salt-worn men of the town. After Sigurlína's untimely death, Salvör pays for her funeral and walks home alone, precipitating her coming of age as a daring, strong-willed young woman who chops off her hair, earns her own wages, educates herself through political and philosophical texts, and soon becomes an advocate for the town's working class, organizing a local chapter of the seamen's union. A feminist coming-of-age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny industrial town, Salka Valka is a novel of epic proportions, living and breathing with its vibrant cast of characters, filled with tenderness, humor, and remarkable pathos"--
Notes
"First published as Salka Valka in two volumes by Bókadeild Menningarsjóos, Reykjavik, 1931-1932."--Title page verso.