{"id":903,"date":"2024-12-18T15:37:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T07:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/?post_type=book&#038;p=903"},"modified":"2025-02-09T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T08:39:52","slug":"fish-have-no-feet","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/book\/fish-have-no-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"\u9c7c\u6ca1\u6709\u811a"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-advanced-heading  root-eb-advance-heading-h0bkz\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-advance-heading-h0bkz\"><div class=\"eb-advance-heading-wrapper eb-advance-heading-h0bkz preset-1 undefined\" data-id=\"eb-advance-heading-h0bkz\"><h2 class=\"eb-ah-title\"><span class=\"first-title\">The Fish Has No Feet- Readers who loved Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea have gone out of their way to love this book!<\/span><\/h2><p class=\"eb-ah-subtitle\">Fiskarnir hafa enga f\u00e6tur<\/p><div class=\"eb-ah-separator line\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Keflavik is known as the darkest place in Iceland, barren lava rocks, a sea you can't fish in, and a US military base you can't drive away. Writer and publisher Ali returns to the place with his seriously ill father, and memories of lesser times come rushing back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Grandfather and Grandmother were Icelanders who spelled out their lives with courage and will on the seas of the East Fjords, when the old fashion was still in vogue, when men brought honor and glory by going to sea, and women endured the cruel wait on shore. The love of his ancestors, the celebration of nature and the glory of life captivated Ali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unbearable question marks rose in Ali's mind as to why, in this same place of mountains and oceans, what was once a glory had turned into a life of only profit instead of a heartbeat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-essential-blocks-team-member  root-eb-team-member-5bk2b\"><div class=\"eb-parent-wrapper eb-parent-eb-team-member-5bk2b\"><div class=\"eb-team-member-5bk2b eb-team-wrapper preset1\"><div class=\"eb-team-inner\"><div class=\"eb-team-member-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"eb-team-member-avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/\u7ea6\u6069\u00b7\u5361\u5c14\u66fc\u00b7\u65af\u7279\u51e1\u677e-Jon-Kalman-Stefansson-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\u7ea6\u6069\u00b7\u5361\u5c14\u66fc\u00b7\u65af\u7279\u51e1\u677e J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson\" data-no-auto-translation=\"\"\/><\/div><div class=\"eb-team-member-contents\"><div class=\"eb-team-member-texts\"><h3 class=\"eb-team-member-name\">J\u00f8rn Karman Stefansson<\/h3><h4 class=\"eb-team-member-job-title\">J\u00f3n Kalman Stef\u00e1nsson<\/h4><hr class=\"eb-team-member-content-separator\"\/><p class=\"eb-team-member-description\">Icelandic writer and poet. Born in Reykjav\u00edk in 1963. Has had various jobs, butcher, fisherman, bricklayer, and even worked as a policeman at the airport for a summer. Studied literature at the University of Iceland, but dropped out before completing his studies. Since then, he has read widely, worked as a teacher, floor cleaner, librarian, etc., and published a few books of poetry off and on, and since 2000, he has been writing full-time. He was nominated for the Nordic Council's Literature Prize, known as the \u201cLittle Nobel Prize\u201d, for his works Summer after the Slope and Tall Trees and Time, and for the Icelandic Literature Prize for Summer Light, Into the Evening (2005), for which he has been nominated several times, and for the P.O. Enquist Prize for Literature (2011), and was nominated for the Dutch European Prize (2013). Nominated for the Dutch Europe Prize in 2013, and for the Booker Prize in 2017. Nothing Is Sweet Without You, the first book in Stefansson's Heaven and Hell trilogy, was awarded the Italian Grinzana Bottari Lattes Literary Prize, while the French edition of the book was shortlisted for the Fermina Prize for Foreign Fiction. The other two books, The Sorrows of Angels and The Human Heart, have also been awarded the Grinzana Botari Lattes Literary Prize as well as the Icelandic Bookseller's Prize, respectively.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nominated for the 2017 Booker International Prize! A literary tour de force from Nobel Prize candidate and Icelandic Poet Laureate and novelist J\u00f3n K\u00e1lm\u00e1n Stef\u00e1nsson! As satisfying as literary classics like Moby Dick and The Old Man and the Sea generally are!<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","book_category":[],"book_tag":[19],"class_list":["post-903","book","type-book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","book_tag-novel"],"acpt":{"meta":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book\/903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"book_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_category?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"book_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.6ebook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book_tag?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}