Iceland's Bell - Halldor Laxness - Books - Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group - 9781400034253 - October 14, 2003
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Iceland's Bell (4th Printing) edition

Halldor Laxness

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Iceland's Bell (4th Printing) edition

Sometimes grim, sometimes uproarious, and always captivating, Iceland?s Bell by Nobel Laureate Halldór Laxness is at once an updating of the traditional Icelandic saga and a caustic social satire. At the close of the 17th century, Iceland is an oppressed Danish colony, suffering under extreme poverty, famine, and plague. A farmer and accused cord-thief named Jon Hreggvidsson makes a bawdy joke about the Danish king and soon after finds himself a fugitive charged with the murder of the king?s hangman.

In the years that follow, the hapless but resilient rogue Hreggvidsson becomes a pawn entangled in political and personal conflicts playing out on a far grander scale. Chief among these is the star-crossed love affair between Snaefridur, known as ?Iceland?s Sun,? a beautiful, headstrong young noblewoman, and Arnas Arnaeus, the king?s antiquarian, an aristocrat whose worldly manner conceals a fierce devotion to his downtrodden countrymen. As their personal struggle plays itself out on an international stage, Iceland?s Bellcreates a Dickensian canvas of heroism and venality, violence and tragedy, charged with narrative enchantment on every page.


448 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released October 14, 2003
ISBN13 9781400034253
Publishers Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pages 448
Dimensions 271 × 135 × 28 mm   ·   326 g
Language English  
Translator Roughton, Philip

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