Independent People - Halldór Laxness
Independent People - Halldór Laxness 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…
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Independent People - Halldór Laxness
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. There is a rare beauty in its telling." --Atlantic MonthlyIf 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. - "A strange story, vibrant and alive....
What ensues is a battle of wills that is by turns harsh and touching, elemental in its emotional intensity and intimate in its But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him.
Independent People
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