Independent People
of HalldĂłr Laxness, James Anderson Thompson (Translator)
Series: SjĂĄlfstĂŠtt fĂłlk #1-4
Description
This magnificent novelâwhich secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literatureâis at last available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its homely detail. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is simply a masterpiece
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 482 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date January 14th 1997
- First Publication 10/28/34
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679767923
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Iceland']
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