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William Heinesen
Glyn Joness translation captures the enthusiasm, charm and humour of a great writers first novel. Windswept Dawn is a Faeroese Under the Milk Wood revealing the whole personality of a…
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Presents a translation of William Heinesen’s masterpiece - one of the most important Scandinavians novels of the 20th-century, which depicts an epic struggle between good and evil.
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First published in 1964 The Good Hope won The Nordic Prize for Literature. It is the first English translation of one of the greatest novels in the Danish language..The Good…
Heinesen’s novels always contain the portrait of what might be termed a good woman: Simona in Windswept Dawn, Eliana in The Lost Musicians, Liva in The Black Cauldron. Here, however…
Spanning the tragedy of war, the clash of sectarian interests, the interplay of religion and sex, superstition, hypocrisy, cant, empty patriotic gestures, this novel develops into a presentation in mythical…
