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The Lost Musicians
Author: William Heinesen
Translator: W Glyn Jones
Cover design: David Bird
Cover illustration: William Heinesen
This is a new translation by W. Glyn Jones of William Heinesen’s masterpiece and one of the most important Scandinavian novels of the 20th century.
‘’William Heinesen's novels are intensely Faeroese, but so universal in their appeal that the reader automatically surrenders to their charm, their energy, their easy intensity - and is overwhelmed by the perspective they convey."
The Independent
Music is at the heart of this book. The devotion to it of a group of amateur musicians forming the Boman Quartet prevents a series of dramatic events from turning into heart-rending tragedy. Music enables each of the musicians to rise above his own bleak situation. But there is humour, too, especially in the satirical, larger-than-life portrayal of the local sectarians, led by the bank manager Ankersen, as they seek in vain to break the spirit of the musicians. And humour of a more earthy kind in Janniksen, the huge blacksmith who is completely at the mercy of his petty-minded sectarian wife.
The setting is a small Faroese town at the beginning of the 20th century – and that town is today the capital of the Faroe Islands, Torshavn.
Reviews
- Alastair Mabbott in The Herald
- Rosanne White in The Big Issue
- Laurence Phelan in The Independent on Sunday
- Jane Smart in The Guardian
- Jenny O'Kane in The Big Buzz
- LD in Buzz
RRP: £9.99
No. of pages: 321
Publication date: 30 November, 2006
Re-print date: unspecified
Catalogue/ISBN no: 1 903517 50 8
Dedalus World English Language Rights
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