Books set in Faroe Islands

The Old Man and His Sons

Heðin Brú

The old fisherman Ketil, of the self-sufficient traditional generation, gets carried away at a whale auction and buys more meat than he can pay for, and the debt sends him and his wife back to the hard old ways to make it good, against the grain of a Faroe Islands sliding into a modern money economy. Heðin Brú roots it in the real islands: the turf-roofed village, the fjord and the whale drive on its shore, the fishing boats, and the mountain outfield of the old subsistence life.

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