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"The Long Ships" by Frans G. Bengtsson. It's a wonderful, humorous adventure tale about the life of a viking. I'd also just suggest you browse the New York Rev
by knuththetruth 8y ago
"The Long Ships" by Frans G. Bengtsson. It's a wonderful, humorous adventure tale about the life of a viking.
I'd also just suggest you browse the New York Review Books collection. They put a lot of effort into reviving this kind of literature in translation, as well as digging up forgotten American gems.
https://www.nyrb.com/ https://www.nyrb.com/
- genjipress 8y agoUpvoted for NYRB. They're like the Criterion Collection of litfic at this point -- they find good stuff that's been out of print for too long, reissue it, bring it back to an audience that deserves to know about it. They recently reissued another long-out-of-print favorite, "Berlin Alexanderplatz", in a new translation.