The Good Hope | |
Author: | William Heinesen |
Title Orig: | Det gode håb |
Translator: | W. Glyn Jones |
Country: | Faroe Islands (Denmark) |
Language: | Danish |
Publisher: | Gyldendal |
Pub Date: | 1964 |
English Pub Date: | 2011 |
Pages: | 245 |
Isbn: | 87-00-02674-3 |
The Good Hope (da|'''Det gode håb''') is a 1964 novel by the Faroese writer William Heinesen, and set in 17th-century Tórshavn. It received the Nordic Council Literature Prize.[1] Heinesen wrote in the Danish language, but his novels, including The Good Hope, were later translated into the Faroese language.