Independent People - Halldór Kiljan Laxness

This magnificent novel—which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature—is 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.  

tytuł oryginału

Independent People

data wydania

1997 (data przybliżona)

ISBN

0679767924

liczba stron

482

język

angielski