The Fish Can Sing-Quality Guarantee

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One of the most beloved novels from the Nobel Prize winner, a poignant coming-of-age tale marked with the peculiar Icelandic blend of light irony and darkhumor. • With an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Thousand Acres.

The orphan Alfgrimur has spent an idyllic childhood sheltered in the simpleturf cottage of a generous and eccentric elderly couple. Alfgrimur dreams only ofbecoming a fisherman like his adoptive grandfather, until he meets Iceland’s biggestcelebrity. The opera singer Gardar Holm’s international fame is a source of tremendouspride to tiny, insecure Iceland, though no one there has ever heard him sing.

A mysteriousman who mostly avoids his homeland and repeatedly fails to perform for his adoringcountrymen, Gardar takes a particular interest in Alfgrimur’s budding musical talentand urges him to seek out the world beyond the one he knows and loves. But as Alfgrimurdiscovers that Gardar is not what he seems, he begins to confront the challenge offinding his own path without turning his back on where he came from.