

Fish in the Sky
Author: Fridrik Erlings
Narrator: Todd Haberkorn
Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/11/2012
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Boys & Men
Author: Fridrik Erlings
Narrator: Todd Haberkorn
Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Candlewick on Brilliance Audio
Published: 09/11/2012
Categories: Young Adult Fiction, Social Themes, Boys & Men
Fridrik Erlings is a novelist, screenwriter, graphic designer, and musician. In 1986 he founded the alternative rock band the Sugarcubes with Björk before leaving music to pursue his writing. He has written and translated lyrics as well as ?lm and television scripts and is the author of the Icelandic classic Benjamin Dove. He says that Fish in the Sky is “about the extreme pains and joys of being a teenager, the curious period in our lives that we all experience in more or less the same way, regardless of our culture, country, race, or gender. Perhaps it is the one time in our whole lives when we are in fact the most perfect human beings we’ll ever become. The question is: where will we go from there?” Fridrik Erlings lives with his wife on a farm in Iceland’s wide-open South.
There was some fabulous writing in this book. Some of the metaphors were beautiful and the language was beautiful. I don’t know if this is because the book was translated from Icelandic and that language is different or if the author just writes like this all the time. Either way sometimes I just wa......more
The only reason I picked up this book at a book fair is because of the cover. It has this blue and simple cover with some fancy-childish font on the front and stars are sparkling all over the background. It is one pretty book and since the summary is not that interesting, the cover actually makes a......more
A wry understated insight into the life of a 13 year old Icelandic boy with the inevitable dysfunctional family but imagination, intuition and poetry in his soul.......more
This book is about a adolescent boy named Joshua, so of course means we are diving inside the mind a boy he is just discovering his body and I found it mildly uncomfortable. Especially when his older cousin seems to be the center of his sexual awakening. The ending is bittersweet leaving his mother,......more