num_pages: 246
description: Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for their fellow men that is the ethos at the Brekkukot. But the narrow horizons of Alfgrimur's idyllic childhood are challenged when he starts school and meets Iceland's most famous singer, the mysterious Garoar Holm. Garoar encourages him to aim for the 'one true note', but how can he attain it without leaving behind the world that he loves?
language: English
title: The Fish Can Sing
titlecomplete: The Fish Can Sing
characters: Garðar Hólm, Björn of Brekkukot, Álfgrímur
genres: Classics, European Literature, Nobel Prize, Novels, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 2606
publisher: Harvill Press