The Fish Can Sing

Name: The Fish Can Sing
Author: Halldor Laxness

About the author

Icelandic author and Nobel laureate whose novels celebrate the resilience of ordinary Icelanders against the forces of history and capitalism. Independent People is his masterpiece, a darkly comic portrait of a stubborn Icelandic farmer.

More by Halldor Laxness

Independent PeopleEpic novel about an Icelandic farmer's struggle for independence across generations
The Atom StationPolitical allegory set in Iceland during Cold War occupation and modernization
Iceland's BellHistorical novel about Scottish traders and Icelandic resistance to Danish rule
Under the GlacierPhilosophical novel about faith and absurdity in a remote Icelandic glacier valley