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Salka Valka follows the life of a head-strong woman of the same name, whose body, as a child, “roiled with unruly vitality.” She’s fiercely independent as she breaks gender norms and takes on the ingrained politics and social structures of her village.
6 de jun. de 2022 · A new translation of “Salka Valka,” by Halldor Laxness, is a compelling story of a determined woman who has to make it on her own in a small fishing village.
Salka Valka (1931–32) began the great series of sociological novels, often coloured with socialist ideas, continuing almost without a break for nearly twenty years.
17 de may. de 2022 · A feminist coming of age tale, an elegy to the plight of the working class and the corrosive effects of social and economic inequality, and a poetic window into the arrival of modernity in a tiny...
7 de jun. de 2022 · Salka Valka. User Review - Publishers Weekly. This resonant story by Nobel laureate Laxness (The Atom Station), first published in 1931, follows a girl’s coming of age amid poverty and social...
A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halld r Laxness's masterpiece Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote Icelandic fishing village, a penniless woman arrives by boat. She comes with her daughter, the young but gutsy Salka Valka.
4 de mar. de 2022 · ‘Salka Valka’ Review: A Hard-Working Heroine of Iceland. Rediscovering Halldór Laxness’s portrait of a singular woman. By. Brad Leithauser. March 4, 2022 10:32 am ET. Share....
