The Whispering Muse

by Sjon

Victoria Cribb (Translator) and Cribb (Translator)

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The year is 1949 and Valdimar Haraldsson, an eccentric Icelander with elevated ideas about the influence of fish consumption on Nordic civilisation, has had the singular good fortune to be invited to join a Danish merchant ship on its way to the Black Sea. Among the crew is the mythical hero Caeneus, disguised as the second mate. Every evening after dinner he entrances his fellow travellers with the tale of how he sailed with the fabled vessel the Argo on the Argonauts' legendary quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece. En route the heroes happened upon the island of Lemnos...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781846591242
  • Publish Date 24 May 2012
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 14 June 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Saqi Books
  • Imprint Telegram Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 144
  • Language English