by Jón Kalman Stefánsson · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070145959
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«D'ailleurs, les poissons n'ont pas de pieds: Chronique familiale» is the novel by Jón Kalman Stefánsson published by Gallimard in paperback (448 pages).
Ari, an editor living in Denmark, returns to Iceland after receiving a package of memories from his father. The memory of his fisherman grandparents in Norðfjörður, his childhood in Keflavík —the city «that does not exist»— and the loss of his mother intertwine in a novel spanning three generations and a century of Icelandic history.
French edition, translated from Icelandic by Éric Boury; the original «Fiskarnir hafa enga fætur» is from 2013. Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize and the International Booker Prize.
For readers of contemporary fiction and family novels, with a story set in Iceland that unites memory, sea and poetic writing.
Jón Kalman Stefánsson is an Icelandic author.
