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Independent People

Af: Halldor Laxness Engelsk Hardback

Independent People

Af: Halldor Laxness Engelsk Hardback
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Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of landscapes. At the same time it is infused with an intense awareness of Iceland''s saga tradition and folklore. Bjartur of Summerhouses is a hard and sometimes cruel man, but his flinty determination to achieve independence is both genuinely heroic and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude before managing to purchase an isolated piece of land rumoured to be cursed, Bjartur wants nothing more than to tend his flocks unbeholden to any man. But his daughter wants to live unbeholden to him, and 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.
An utterly compelling read.

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Set in the early decades of the twentieth century, Independent People is a masterly realist novel evoking in rich detail a family and a rural community struggling to survive in the starkest of landscapes. At the same time it is infused with an intense awareness of Iceland''s saga tradition and folklore. Bjartur of Summerhouses is a hard and sometimes cruel man, but his flinty determination to achieve independence is both genuinely heroic and bleakly comic. Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude before managing to purchase an isolated piece of land rumoured to be cursed, Bjartur wants nothing more than to tend his flocks unbeholden to any man. But his daughter wants to live unbeholden to him, and 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.
An utterly compelling read.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 320
ISBN-13: 9781841593975
Indbinding: Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1841593974
Kategori: Iceland
Udg. Dato: 3 sep 2020
Længde: 36mm
Bredde: 211mm
Højde: 136mm
Forlag: Everyman
Oplagsdato: 3 sep 2020
Forfatter(e): Halldor Laxness
Forfatter(e) Halldor Laxness


Kategori Iceland


ISBN-13 9781841593975


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 320


Udgave


Længde 36mm


Bredde 211mm


Højde 136mm


Udg. Dato 3 sep 2020


Oplagsdato 3 sep 2020


Forlag Everyman

Kategori sammenhænge