Lit in Translation

Fish Have No Feet

Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur

Jón Kalman Stefánsson (born 1963)

Translated by Philip Roughton

English editions

In English

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Spanning roughly a hundred years, this family saga is anchored in two places: the fjord town of Norðfjörður in the east, and Keflavík on the windswept Reykjanes peninsula. Its people love, suffer, search and flee, amid violence, longing and a sea closed off by fishing quotas, with the American base and the music of the Beatles and Pink Floyd never far away.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
358 pages in the original
Genres
Family (assigned by AI)
Set in
Iceland
First published
2013 by Bjartur
Author's age
50 when first published
ISBN

9789935454201 (original)

9780857054418 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)

9780857054432 (MacLehose Press, United Kingdom)

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