From the Mouth of the Whale

“Strange and wonderful . . . A kind of Robinson Crusoe of the northern climes, an entrancing novel about the wonders and cruelty of a changing world.” —Keith Donohue, The Washington Post 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. Sjón introduces us to Jónas Pálmason, a