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BOOKS by Halldor Laxness

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Independent People

Independent People more books like this

by Halldor Laxness

A novel by an Icelandic Nobel Prizewinner, about a sheep farmer who wants only to be an independent man. When his daughter expresses her own needs for independence, the battle of wills that results is both harsh and poignant. Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction: "I finished its last chapters one late afternoon in Rome, seated in an all-but ...

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The Fish Can Sing

The Fish Can Sing more books like this

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator)

This 1955 novel by Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness takes place in a rural village in Iceland, where a young boy is abandoned by his parents and grows up to become fanatically devoted to an internationally famous singer.

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Atom Station

Atom Station more books like this

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness

"Laxness describes the popular reaction to an attempt by the U.S. to buy land for a nuclear base near Reykjavik. He contrasts corruption and decadence in the capital with the simple life of peasants in the north . . . Rich, lyrical prose, all expertly interpreted in the translation. Among the many vivid characters, the narrator stands out: her wit ...

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Iceland's Bell

Iceland's Bell more books like this

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor

Drawing on the days when Iceland was under the control of Denmark, this novel--set in the late 1700s--is about Jon Hreggvidson, an Icelandic farmer who is imprisoned for insulting the Danish king, and for a murder he did not commit. As he attempts to clear his name, he encounters a woman named Snaefridur Eydalin, who defends him, and an idealistic ...

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Under the glacier.

Under the glacier. more books like this

by Halldór Laxness

Nobel laureate Halldor Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Sn?fells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying ...

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Paradise Reclaimed

Paradise Reclaimed more books like this

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator), Jane Smiley (Introduction by)

In this work, written by Laxness in the 1950s, a farmer named Steinar becomes enamored of Mormonism, leaves his ancestral farm in Iceland, and travels to Salt Lake City, where he embraces the religion (and the polygamy that goes with it). He returns home as a Mormon missionary and ends up on his old farm--now a ruin which he proceeds to reclaim.

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World Light

World Light more books like this

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor Laxness

Iceland's Nobel Prizewinning writer, who died in 1998, published this novel in four parts in the late 1930s. It is the story of an Icelandic poet named Olaf Karason, whose cruel childhood is the beginning of a life that culminates in his renunciation of the world.

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Independent people, an epic more books like this

by Halldór Kiljan Laxness, J. Anderson Thompson, [from old catalog]

A novel by an Icelandic Nobel Prizewinner, about a sheep farmer who wants only to be an independent man. When his daughter expresses her own needs for independence, the battle of wills that results is both harsh and poignant. Brad Leithauser writes in his introduction: "I finished its last chapters one late afternoon in Rome, seated in an all-but ...

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Salka Valka more books like this

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness

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Independent people more books like this

by Halldór Laxness, J. Anderson Thompson

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Independent people, an epic. more books like this

by Halldór Laxness, J. Anderson Thompson

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The happy warriors more books like this

by Halldor Laxness

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Iceland more books like this

by John Chang McCurdy, Magnus Magnusson, Baldwin Tryggvason

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Das Wiedergefundene Paradies

by Halldor Laxness

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El Concierto De Los Peces (Literatura Y Memoria)

by Halldor Laxness

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La cloche d'Islande : roman more books like this

by Halldór Laxness

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The Great Weaver from Kashmir

The Great Weaver from Kashmir

by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halladr Laxness, Philip Roughton (Translator)

Laxness' first major novel, published in 1927, propelled Iceland into the modern world, but it's radical experimentation caused a stir as it told the story of a young poet who left the physical and cultural confines of Iceland's shores for the jumbled world of post-WWI Europe.

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Islands Klokke

by Halldor Kilian Laxness

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Sendependaj Homoj (Romantraduko En Esperanto)

Sendependaj Homoj (Romantraduko En Esperanto) more books like this

by Halldor Laxness, Baldur Ragnarsson (Translator)

Independent People is an epic novel by Halldor Laxness, published 1934-35. Its subject is the struggle of poor Icelandic farmers in the early 1900s, only freed from debt bondage in the last generation, and surviving on an isolated croft in inhospitable countryside. --- The novel is an indictment of materialism, the human relationship costs of the ...

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Weltlicht

by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert

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Atomstation

by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert

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Die Geschichte Vom Teuren Brot

by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert

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Am Gletscher

by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert; Kress, Bruno

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Sieben Zauberer

by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert

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Sein Eigener Herr: Roman

by Halldor Laxness

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