Halldór Laxness

Salka Valka är en roman av den isländske författaren Halldór Laxness, första gången utgiven 1931. Den har filmatiserats två gånger, se Salka Valka och Salka Valka.

Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather. There he shares the mid-loft with a motley bunch of eccentrics and philosophers who find refuge in the simple respect for their fellow …