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1	Independent People more books like this by Halldor Laxness add to wishlist Set in Iceland, this story is imbued with the lyrical force of medieval ballads and Nordic myth. see all copies from $6.95! new only from $9.41! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Under the glacier. more books like this by Halldór Laxness add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.27! \| SVS
3	Iceland's Bell more books like this by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor, Philip Roughton (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $3.15! new only from $5.24! \| SVS
4	Atom Station more books like this by Halldor Kiljan Laxness add to wishlist "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 ... see all copies from $4.76! new only from $8.70! \| first editions
5	The Fish Can Sing more books like this by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator) add to wishlist A childhood in Iceland is the background to this powerful and evocative tale. Halldor Laxness' wistfully tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjom of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik. It evokes his boyhood and youth, spent at ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $8.55! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Paradise Reclaimed more books like this by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Magnus Magnusson (Translator), Jane Smiley (Introduction by) add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.98! new only from $9.64! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Independent people, an epic more books like this by Halldór Kiljan Laxness, J. Anderson Thompson, [from old catalog] add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $2.70! first editions
8	Independent people, an epic. more books like this by Halldór Laxness, J. Anderson Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $3.74! first editions
9	Salka Valka more books like this by Halldor Kiljan Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $24.53! new only from $59.18!
10	World Light more books like this by Halldor Kiljan Laxness, Halldor Laxness add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $4.97! new only from $9.47! \| first editions \| SVS
11	Independent people : translated from the Icelandic by J. A. Thompson more books like this by Halldór Laxness add to wishlist Bjartus is a sheep farmer hewing a living from a blighted patch of land in Iceland. After 18 years of servitude to a master he despises, all he wants is to raise his flocks unbeholden to anyone. Nothing, not inclement weather, not his wives, not his family will come between him and his goal of financial independence. Only Asta Solillja, the child ... see all copies from $29.24!
12	Independent people more books like this by Halldór Laxness, J. Anderson Thompson add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00!
13	Sendependaj Homoj (Romantraduko En Esperanto) more books like this by Halldor Laxness, Baldur Ragnarsson (Translator) add to wishlist 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 ... see all copies from $24.21! new only from $24.21! \| SVS
14	Das Wiedergefundene Paradies by Halldor Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $25.00!
15	The fish can sing by Halldór Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $70.99!
16	El Concierto De Los Peces (Literatura Y Memoria) by Halldor Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $46.54!
17	Sein Eigener Herr: Roman by Halldor Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $52.93!
18	La cloche d'Islande : roman more books like this by Halldór Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $54.94! new only from $54.94!
19	Sein Eigener Herr by Halldor Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $19.59!
20	Under the Glacier by Halldór Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $13.57!
21	Atomstation by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert add to wishlist see all copies from $17.10! new only from $34.29!
22	Das Fischkonzert by Halldor; Seelow Laxness, Hubert add to wishlist see all copies from $17.10! new only from $34.20!
23	Das Wiedergefundene Paradies by Halldor; Kress Laxness, Bruno add to wishlist see all copies from $17.10! new only from $33.93!
24	The happy warriors more books like this by Halldor Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $272.99! first editions
25	Islands Klokke by Halldor Kilian Laxness add to wishlist see all copies from $49.96!

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