Under the Glacier
$31.20
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
10 May 2022
Summary
Darkly funny and surprising novel about superstition and religion in an isolated Icelandic town. With an introduction from Susan Sontag.
“Wildly original, morose, uproarious… It is also one of the funniest books ever written” - Susan Sontag
A naive young man is sent by the bishop of Iceland to investigate a small town that has reportedly lost its faith. The church is boarded up and the errant pastor lives with a woman who is not his wife. He has also allowed a corpse to be lod…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784877613 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1784877611 |
| Author: | Halldór Laxness, Susan Sontag |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Vintage Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 10 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 224g |
| Dimensions: | 23mm x 198mm x 129mm |
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Critics Review
This is a novel of immense charm… It’s a book of ideas, like no other Laxness ever wrote
This is a novel of immense charm… It’s a book of ideas, like no other Laxness ever wrote – Susan Sontag
Under the Glacier is hilarious, in a deadpan, northern-edge-of-the-world sort of way – Andrew O’Hehir * Salon *
Whimsical… deliriously funny… impishly chaotic * Kirkus Reviews *
Under the Glacier is a journey to the center of Laxness’s antic imagination, and it is well worth the trip – Vincent Czyz * The Arts Fuse *
About The Author
Halldór Laxness
Halldór Laxness (Author)
Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.
Susan Sontag (Introducer)
Susan Sontag is the author of four novels, The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover and In America which won the National Book Award, 2000. She is also the author of I, etcetera, a collection of stories; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and five works of non-fiction, among them On Photography and Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors. She died in 2004.
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