Salka Valka
by: Halldor Laxness / Philip Roughton (Translator)

Softcover. NY, Archipelago Books, 1st, 2022, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wrappers, 624 pages. A fresh translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's modernist masterpiece, Salka Valka. 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 industrial town, Salka Valka is a novel of epic proportions, living and breathing with its expansive cast of characters, filled with tenderness, humor, and remarkable pathos. Clean copy.