Storm birds / Einar Kárason ; translated from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates.
Storm birds / Einar Kárason ; translated from the Icelandic by Quentin Bates.
By
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Einar Kárason.
Publication Date
:
2020
Publication Information
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London : MacLehose Press,
Physical Description
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110 p.
Subject Term
:
Fishing stories.
Storms -- Fiction.
Adventure fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
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Historical fiction.
Additional Contributors
:
Bates, Quentin.
Summary
:
In February 1959, several Icelandic trawlers were caught in a storm off Newfoundland's Grand Banks. What happened there is the inspiration for this novel. Not since The Perfect Storm has there been a book which captures the sheer drama and terror of a crisis at sea. Karason is an exceptional storyteller, an Icelandic Erskine Caldwell or William Faulkne The side trawler Mafurinn is hit by a major storm just as they prepare to turn for home. Thirty-two men aboard, and a hold full of redfish. The sea is cold enough to kill a man in minutes, and the trawler quickly ices up in the biting frost and violent tempest. The heavy icing weighs down the already fully laden craft, which is pummelled by one breaker after another - and here, out on the open sea, there is no exit route. Distress signals from other ships in the same circumstance and be heard from the fishing grounds around them. It is a battle of life and death.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780857059420
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