The novel, translated by Damion Searls, is the first in a triptych set in the fictional Norwegian fishing village of Vaim which follows a cast of solitary fisherman, lost loves, animal companions ...

By Clay Risen John Casey, a writer of lyric yet taut prose in novels, essays and short stories who won the National Book Award in 1989 for “Spartina,” the story of a rough-hewn fisherman that ...