Salka Valka

by Halldór Laxness, Hubert Seelow (Editor)

Overview

Die junge Salka bekommt vom Leben nichts geschenkt - aber sie erkämpft sich alles: Wohlstand, Respekt und Liebe. Was davon wird Bestand haben? Ein kleines isländisches Fischerdorf ist der Schauplatz dieses breit angelegten Gesellschaftsromans voll starker Charaktere, hitziger Auseinandersetzungen und widerstreitender Gefühle.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783958290075
Publisher:	Steidl, Gerhard Druckerei und Verlag
Publication date:	10/12/2015
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	2 MB
Language:	German

About the Author

Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction, and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he wrote more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs.

Philip Roughton is an award-winning translator of Icelandic literature. His translations include works by many of Iceland's best-known writers, including Laxness, Jon Kalman Stefánsson, Bergsveinn Birgisson, Steinunn Sigurðardottir, and others.

Stina Nielsen has been seen on Broadway and in London's West End in The Judas Kiss with Liam Neeson. Her other Broadway credits include Waiting in the Wings with Lauren Bacall and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Kathleen Turner. Her regional theater credits include Tennessee Williams's The Notebook of Trigorin with Lynn Redgrave, Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage, and Ivan Turgenev's A Month in the Country. Her TV credits include Law & Order SVU, Another World, The City, and All My Children. Stina has recorded over 175 audiobooks, has been nominated for several Audie Awards, and was named one of the "Best Voices of 2011" by AudioFile magazine.