Independent People - Halldor Laxness - Books - Random House USA Inc - 9780679767923 - January 14, 1997
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Independent People 1st Vintage International edition

Halldor Laxness

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Independent People 1st Vintage International edition

This magnificent novel?which secured for its author the 1955 Nobel Prize in Literature?is at least available to contemporary American readers. Although it is set in the early twentieth century, it recalls both Iceland's medieval epics and such classics as Sigrid Undset's Kristin Lavransdatter. And if Bjartur of Summerhouses, the book's protagonist, is an ordinary sheep farmer, his flinty determination to achieve independence is genuinely heroic and, at the same time, terrifying and bleakly comic.

Having spent eighteen years in humiliating servitude, Bjartur wants nothing more than to raise his flocks unbeholden to any man. But Bjartur's spirited daughter wants to live unbeholden to him. 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. Vast in scope and deeply rewarding, Independent People is a masterpiece.


482 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released January 14, 1997
ISBN13 9780679767923
Publishers Random House USA Inc
Pages 482
Dimensions 203 × 134 × 29 mm   ·   362 g
Language English  
Contributor Brad Leithauser

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