From the Mouth of the Whale

Shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

''A terrific read...an extraordinarily accomplished novel'' Independent

''Kaleidoscopic and mesmerising, comic and poignant'' TLS

In this magical evocation of a vanished age, a poet and self-taught healer is banished in 1635 to a barren island off Iceland - a place darkened by superstition, poverty...