Independent People
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From the Nobel Prize-winning Icelandic author, a magnificent, epic novel—"funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant" (Annie Proulx)—at last available to contemporary American readers.
Set in the early twentieth century, Independent People recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. 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 a masterpiece.
Best prices to buy, sell, or rent ISBN 9780679767923
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- Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman (Everyman's Library Classics Series)Laxness, HalldórISBN-13:9781101908273
- Independent PeopleHalldr Laxness, 1902-1998ISBN-13:9780099527121
- Independent People: An EpicLaxness, Halldór; Thompson, J.A.ISBN-13:9780837188720
- Independent PeopleLaxness, HalldórISBN-13:9780844669496
- Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman (Everyman's Library Classics Series)Laxness, HalldórISBN-13:9781101908273
- Independent PeopleHalldr Laxness, 1902-1998ISBN-13:9780099527121
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