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From the Mouth of the Whale is an Icelandic saga for the modern age. The year is 1635. Iceland is a world darkened by superstition, poverty, and cruelty. Men of science marvel over a unicorn s horn, poor folk worship the Virgin in secret, and both books and men are burned.
Sjn introduces us to Jnas Plmason, a poet and self-taught healer, banished to a barren island for heretical conduct, as he recalls his gift for curing female maladies, his exorcism of a walking corpse on the remote Snjfjll coast, the frenzied massacre of innocent Basque whalers at the hands of local villagers, and the deaths of three of his children. Plmason s story echoes across centuries and cultures, an epic tale that makes us see the world anew. *This book may have remainder mark.