Jónas Pálmason the Learned was one of those people whose life is forever turning with the wheel of fortune.  He had no sooner reached a safe haven than he was sent straight back out on to the stormy sea, and always in a leakier vessel than the one in which he had arrived. From the Mouth of the Whale opens with a strange prologue.  Lucifer … Continue reading From the Mouth of the Whale by Sjón (translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb)