Independent People

AvHalldór Laxness

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Engelska, 2010

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The great Icelandic novel written by a Nobel prize-winner, this is a magnificent portrait of the eerie Icelandic landscape and one man's dogged struggle for independence.‘In Iceland it’s the canon, but to me it’s a cult classic’ Zadie Smith‘I defy anyone to finish Halldór Laxness's Independent People without wetting the pages with tears’ Jonathan Franzen‘Favourite book? Independent People… I love it’ Ann PatchettBjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land in rural Iceland. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family, will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child he brings up as his daughter, can pierce his stubborn heart. As she grows up, keen to make her own way in the world, Bjartus's obstinacy threatens to estrange them forever.‘A masterpiece’ David Mitchell‘It moved me immensely’ Barbara Kingsolver‘One of the great novels’ Ian McEwan‘Funny, clever, sardonic and brilliant’ Annie Proulx‘A great Icelandic novel…It’s an epic’ Max Porter‘An amazing book… A stunning piece of work’ Cillian Murphy'Laxness is a magnificent writer' Salman Rushdie'Laxness’ contribution to both Icelandic and world literature cannot be overstated' Andrey Kurkov

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2010-09-30
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781409000570
Förlag:Vintage Publishing

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Halldór Laxness (1908-98) was born near Reykjavik, Iceland. His first novel was published when he was seventeen. The undisputed master of contemporary Icelandic fiction and one of the outstanding novelists of the twentieth-century, he wrote more than sixty books. Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1955.

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"I love this book. It is an unfolding wonder of artistic vision and skill - one of the best books of the 20th century. I can't imagine any greater delight than coming to Independent People for the first time" -- Jane Smiley "Laxness is a poet who writes to the edge of the pages, a visionary who allows a plot: he takes a Tolstoyan overview, he weaves in an Evelyn Waugh-like humour: It is not possible to be unimpressed" Daily Telegraph "Marvellously fluent and unaffected... one of the most original and skilfully written novels of the 20th century" Times Literary Supplement "There are good books and there are great books and there may be a book that is something still more: it is the book of your life" New York Review of Books "Do yourself a favour and read Independent People. Opening this book is like opening a chest of treasures. Reading this book is like taking the treasures out and appreciating them, savouring them, one by one, sentence by sentence. This is the kind of novel that reminds you how glad you are that you learned to read in the first place" Chicago Tribune