Under the Glacier - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Halldor Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator)Series:Vintage InternationalPublish date:2005-02-01Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400034413ISBN-10:1400034418UPC:9781400034413Book Category:Fiction, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary, European, HistoricalBook Topic:GermanSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC55QEAE46
Under the Glacier
Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness's Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this...
Series: Vintage International
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400034413ISBN-10:1400034418UPC:9781400034413Book Category:Fiction, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Literary, European, HistoricalBook Topic:GermanSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4497Product ID:SC55QEAE46
Halldór Laxness was born near Reykjavík, 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 wrote more than sixty books, including novels, short stories, essays, poems, plays, and memoirs. In 1955 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Laxness died in 1998.
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