Fish Can Sing: Halldor Laxness

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for their fellow men that is the ethos at the Brekkukot. But the narrow horizons of Alfgrimur`s idyllic childhood are challenged when he starts school and meets Iceland`s most famous singer, the mysterious Garoar Holm. Garoar encourages him to aim for the `one true note`, but how can he attain it without leaving behind the world that he loves?