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Independent People

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Availability:In StockContributor:Halldor LaxnessSeries:Vintage InternationalPublish date:1997-01-14Pages:512
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679767923ISBN-10:679767924UPC:9780679767923Book Category:Fiction, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, EuropeanBook Topic:GermanSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCXC30KH1R
From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author: a magnificent novel that recalls Iceland's medieval epics and classics, set in the early twentieth century starring an ordinary sheep farmer and his heroic determination to achieve independence. - "A strange story, vibrant and alive.... There is a rare beauty in its telling." --Atlantic Monthly

If Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to free himself 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 a masterpiece.
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9780679767923ISBN-10:679767924UPC:9780679767923Book Category:Fiction, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary, Classics, EuropeanBook Topic:GermanSize:7.90 x 5.20 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SCXC30KH1R
HALLDÓR LAXNESS was born near Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1902. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the century, he has written more than sixty books, including novels short stories, essays, poems, plays and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He died in 1998.
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