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      From the Mouth of the Whale

      by Sjon
      Published
      May 2013
      Main Genre
      Literary Literary
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      240
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      The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn's horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned.

      Jonas Palmason, a poet and self-taught healer, has been condemned to exile for heretical conduct, having fallen afoul of the local magistrate. Banished to a barren island, Palmason recalls his gift for curing "female maladies," 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.

      Palmason's story echoes across centuries and cultures, an epic tale that makes us see the world anew.

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      General Fiction

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      Historical Literary

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      Military

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      Nov 2011 Telegram ISBN13 9781846590832 ISBN10 1846590833
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      May 2013 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374159030 ISBN10 0374159033
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      Nov 2019 Hodder & Stoughton (UK) ISBN13 9781529342970 ISBN10 152934297X
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      May 2013 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN13 9780374709945 ISBN10 0374709947
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