The whispering muse
By: Sjón ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb
Contributors: Cribb, Victoria, translator
Edition: First American edition.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9780374289072
Subjects: Caeneus (Greek mythology); Fiction
Work titles: Argóarflísin
Description: Invited to sail on a Danish merchant ship in 1949, eccentric Icelander Valdimar Haraldsson discovers the second mate on the ship is none other than Caeneus, the hero of Greek mythology, who regales his fellow shipmates with tales of the Golden Fleece.
Notes: English translation originally published in 2012 by Telegram, Great Britain.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 143).