num_pages: 272
description: The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition poverty and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorns horn poor folk worship the Virgin in secret and both books and men are burnt. Jnas Plmason a poet and self-taught healer has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct having fallen foul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island Jnas recalls his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjafjoll coast the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers and the deaths of three of his children.From the Mouth of the Whale is a magical evocation of an enlightened mind and a vanished age.
language: English
title: From the Mouth of the Whale
publisher: Telegram