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978-1-84659-073-3
Fiction
2010 TBC
Paperback
13 x 20 cm
204pp
£7.99

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About the Author
Heðin Brú (1901–1987) was the pen name of Hand Jacob Jacobsen, a Faroese novelist and translator. He is considered the most important Faroese writer of his generation and is known for his fresh and ironic style.

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From The Old Man and His Sons

Heðin Brú

‘Go over to the pastor, then, and ask him for leave to search for driftwood.’
Ketil's spirits rose. He decided to go over to the pastor right away. He sprang up and asked his wife to pass him his skin shoes.
‘You'd better tidy yourself up before you go,’ his wife warned him.
But he thought this quite unnecessary; he just pulled a few strands of chewing tobacco off his beard. There were three dead spiders clinging to the front of his sweater, and he brushed these away too. Then off he went.


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At the heart of Brú's fable is a clash of two ways of living: the centuries-old subsistence economy of fulmar-hunting and stewed whale liver and the modern world of the telephone and the motorboat.

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