Independent People
$51.92
- Hardcover
320 pages
- Release Date
3 September 2020
Summary
The Nobel Prize-winning author’s magnificent epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.
Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of landscapes. At the same time it is infused with an intense awareness of Iceland’s saga tradition and folklore.
Bjartur of Summerhouses is a hard and so…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841593975 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1841593974 |
| Author: | Halldór Laxness, John Freeman |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 September 2020 |
| Weight: | 583g |
| Dimensions: | 137mm x 211mm x 32mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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A saga that somehow contrives to recapture the broad, clear air of older Icelandic tales.
A saga that somehow contrives to recapture the broad, clear air of older Icelandic tales. * Observer *
I love this book … I can’t imagine any greater delight than coming to Independent People for the first time. – Jane Smiley
Funny, clever, sardonic, and brilliant, Independent People is one of my Top Ten Favourite Books of All Time. – Annie Proulx
Laxness has a poet’s imagination and a poet’s gift for phrase and symbol … Bjartur is a magnificent and complex symbol of peasant independence. * The New York Times Book Review *
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