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    Halldor Laxness

    Bjartus is a sheep farmer determined to eke a living from a blighted patch of land. Nothing, not merciless weather, nor his family will come between him and his goal…

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    Independent People

    Halldor Laxness

    In an epic set in Iceland in the early twentieth century, Gudbjartur Jonsson buys his own croft after eighteen years of service to the local bailiff, and brings his wife…

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    Fish Can Sing

    Halldor Laxness

    Abandoned as a baby, Alfgrimur is content to spend his days as a fisherman living in the turf cottage outside Reykjavik with the elderly couple he calls grandmother and grandfather…

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    Salka Valka

    Halldor Laxness

    A BRAND NEW TRANSLATION OF LAXNESS’ TALE OF POVERTY AND GREED Set at the start of the twentieth century in a fictional Icelandic fishing village, Salka Valka follows the struggles…

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    The Fish Can Sing

    Halldor Laxness

    A sort of Icelandic Great Gatsby, this beloved gem of a coming-of-age novelis one of Nobel Prize-winning author Laxnesss most accessible. 12,500print.

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    Under the Glacier

    Halldor Laxness

    At the beginning of this otherworldly novel, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against a pastor, who, among other things, appears to have given…

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    World Light

    Halldor Laxness

    Determined that he will someday be a great poet, Olaf Karason pursues his dream in the face of the contempt and indifference of the people around him, taking up a…

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    Paradise Reclaimed

    Halldor Laxness

    Traces a poor Icelandic farmer’s journey to Mormon Utah and back, as he desperately tries to reunite his broken family.

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    The Atom Station

    Halldor Laxness

    When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after World War II, a storm of protest if provoked throughout the country. The…

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    Halldor Laxness in Deutschland: Rezeptionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen

    Guarun Hrefna Guamundsdottir,Guraun

    Die vorliegende Studie ist ein Beitrag zur Untersuchung der Rezeption skandinavischer Literatur in Deutschland nach 1945. Verglichen mit dem deutsch-nordischen -Goldenen Zeitalter- davor ist dies eine bisher weitgehend unerforschte Periode…

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    Wayward Heroes

    Halldor Laxness

    Published in 1952, Wayward Heroes is part of the body of works for which Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955. It is a masterfully written tragicomedy about the…

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    The Great Weaver From Kashmir

    Halldor Laxness

    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…

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    Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman

    Halldor Laxness

    An epic tale of a stubborn sheep farmer named Bjartur of Summerhouses who decides to spit in the direction of his country’s pagan traditions, and its landowners, making his way…

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    Salka Valka

    Halldor Laxness

    First published as Salka Valka in two volumes by Baokadeild Menningarsjaos, Reyjavaik, 1931-1932 –Title page verso.

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    Independent People

    Halldor Laxness

    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…

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    Iceland’s Bell

    Halldor Laxness

    At the turn of the eighteenth century, in an Iceland that exists as an oppressed colony of Denmark, farmer Jon Hreggvidsson finds himself a fugitive on a trumped up charge…

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    Under the Glacier

    Halldor Laxness

    At the beginning of this otherworldly novel, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against a pastor, who, among other things, appears to have given…

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    The Islander

    Halldor Gudmundsson

    The definitive biography of Iceland's most celebrated writer, Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness.

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