The village
Chapter 1
In the small village of turf-roofed houses, the old fisherman Ketil belongs to a generation that still lives by its own hands, growing, fishing and gathering what it needs. His stubborn, dignified attachment to the old self-sufficient ways is the ground of the whole book's gentle comedy of a world in transition.
Chapter 1
inspired byKetil and his wife live in a turf-roofed house in a small Faroese village; the village is invented and sited in the real islands, whose settlements the book portrays.
